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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Wilmington, NC

September 5, 2026Darlington County, Florence County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 2026, 4:46 PM EDT for Darlington County, Florence County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 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: Sep 5, 2026, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Darlington County, SC, Florence County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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
Sep 5, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 279 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: 2837 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.4

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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 Sep 5, 6:38 AM EDT, 10 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 6:38 AM EDT, 10 hours 8 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 5, 4:32 PM EDT, 14 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
Sep 5, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	40 min
Sep 5, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus, Robeson	40 min
Sep 5, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	40 min
Sep 5, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Pender, Robeson	33 min
Sep 5, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Pender, Robeson	61 min
Sep 5, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	52 min
Sep 5, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		2 hr
Sep 5, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender	61 min
Sep 5, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	ILM		67 min
Sep 5, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Marlboro	47 min
Sep 5, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	ILM	Florence	28 min
Sep 5, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	31 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.