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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2026, 11:16 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 28, 2026, 11:16 PM EDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2026, 11:59 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 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 03:20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 2733 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 19.9
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 Jul 28, 3:02 PM EDT, 8 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 3:02 PM EDT, 8 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 11:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 56 min |
| Jul 29, 12:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 42 min |
| Jul 29, 2:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 35 min |
| Jul 29, 2:38 AM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 22 hr |
| Jul 29, 3:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | New Hanover | 30 min |
| Jul 29, 4:39 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 36 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.