Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1987, 3:45 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1987, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Duplin 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, 4:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Duplin, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KILM 241944
SVRILM
NCC061-242030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
345 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1987
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
NORTH CAROLINA... NORTHWESTERN DUPLIN
AT 345 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATE BY RADAR NEAR THE DUPLIN
COUNTY LINE WEST OF FAISON MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.
CHWhat 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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 24, 3:22 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 322 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1987 TIME EVENT 1400 EDT DIME SIZE HAIL AT BUTTERS IN WESTERN BLADEN CO 1518 EDT QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT ELIZABETHTOWN IN CENTRAL BLADEN CO AH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 62 min |
| Apr 24, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Sampson | 61 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1987Every 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.