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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2025, 12:10 PM EDT for Williamsburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2025, 12:10 PM EDT (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2025, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 12:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 W Nesmith, SC | Tree down in roadway. |
| Jun 8, 12:55 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 W Nesmith, SC | TREE DOWN ON NESMITH RD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 11:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 84 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1747 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 9:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 9:50 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 8, 12:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 1:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Pender | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 1:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 61 min | |
| Jun 8, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 77 min |
| Jun 8, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 116 min | |
| Jun 8, 2:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 83 min | |
| Jun 8, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 10:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Darlington | 57 min |
| Jun 7, 10:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Williamsburg | 53 min |
| Jun 7, 11:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Georgetown | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 11:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Marlboro | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 11:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Darlington, Florence | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 11:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Marion, Williamsburg | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Horry | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry, Williamsburg | 75 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.