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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2026, 7:09 PM EDT for Bladen County, Robeson County, North Carolina; Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 11, 2026, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2026, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bladen County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1951 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 1:37 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender | 30 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:21 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | ILM | New Hanover | 9 hr |
| Aug 11, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 35 min |
| Aug 11, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 28 min |
| Aug 11, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Marlboro | 29 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.