Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 24, 1987Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1987, 1:48 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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: Apr 24, 1987, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 1987, 2:50 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 24, 2:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Bladen, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILM 241749
SVRILM
NCC017-241850-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
148 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 250 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
NORTH CAROLINA... WESTERN BLADEN
                                                                         
AT 145 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE      
THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN ROBESON COUNTY NEAR THE BLADEN COUNTY LINE.   
A REPORT OF MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. 
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. 
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.
                                                      q                   
                                                                         
 
GLS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Sampson	61 min
Apr 24, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.