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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 8, 20255 counties in North Carolina; Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2025, 1:43 PM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina; Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 77 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: Jun 8, 2025, 1:43 PM EDT (17:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2025, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 77 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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, 1:27 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:27 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 11:29 AM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:31 AM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:37 AM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:14 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 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, 12:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Williamsburg	65 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

Nearby

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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.