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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 14, 2025Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2025, 4:23 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 2025, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 203 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2025-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 282 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2025-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
282 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 4:43 AM EDTRip Current StatementILMNew Hanover, Pender15 hr
May 14, 12:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMPender46 min
May 14, 12:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMNew Hanover23 min
May 14, 12:56 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryILMNew Hanover64 min
May 14, 3:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen42 min
May 14, 3:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMColumbus47 min
May 14, 4:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen50 min
May 14, 4:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMColumbus58 min
May 14, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen25 min
May 14, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMBladen35 min
May 14, 5:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMPender47 min
May 14, 10:01 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningILMFlorence, Marion4 days
May 14, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMMarion41 min
May 14, 4:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMHorry58 min
May 14, 5:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementILMHorry61 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.