Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1987, 5:15 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1987, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1987, 6:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pender County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 192117 SVRILM NCC141-192220- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 515 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA... PENDER AT 515 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOWN BY THE WILMINGTON WEATHER RADAR WAS 10 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF BURGAW IN PENDER COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA SHOULD TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY. DS
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 19, 3:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 355 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 1987 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA... AT 330 THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED IN CLUSTERS AND SHORT LINES FROM THE VIRGINIA BORDER OF NORTH CAROLINA NORTH OF ROCKY MOUNT THROUGH THE SANDHILLS AROUND FAYETTEVILLE INTO EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA TO THE COAST CHARLESTON TO MYRTLE BEACH. PERSONS IN COLUMBUS...ROBESON AND SAMPSON COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST NORTHCAROLINA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR STRONG WINDS...LOCAL TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH LOWER DRIVING VISIBILITY AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WHICH IS MORE LIKELY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FORMING THUNDERSTORMS. . THE STORMS CONTINUED TO DRIFT SLOWLY EAST AND SPREAD OUT AND DISSIPATE FARTHER INLAND FROM THE COAST. THE STORMS ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST ALSO DISSIPATED AS THEY APPROACHED THE COAST FROM THE WEST SINCE 230w THIS AFTERNOON. AEP
Special weather statement, May 19, 4:45 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 445 PM EDT TUE MAY 19 1987 VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED WITH LITTLE CHANGE OVER EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SINCE 330 THIS AFTERNOON. AT 425 PM VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED WITHIN AN AREA OF RAIN THAT EXTENDED FROM THE VIRGINIA BORDER NORTH OF ROCKY MOUNT INTO SOUTH CAROLINA. THE AREA COVERED THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT...MOST OF THE COASTAL PLAINS AND THE SANDHILLS AS WELL AS THE WESTERN PORTION OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN THE SOUTHERN COASTAL AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA. IN SOUTH CAROLINA THE AREA COVERED MUCH OF THE MIDLANDS AND THE COASTAL AREA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL WILSON COUNTY...NEAR WARSAW IN DUPLIN COUNTY AND NORTHWEST OF ELIZABETHTOWN IN BLADEN COUNTY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY ACCOMPANY SOME OF THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 17 MILES AN HOUR. JF
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.