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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

September 2, 1987Brunswick County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1987, 12:40 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 1987, 12:40 PM EDT (16:40 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1987, 1:40 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Brunswick 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1987-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1987-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 021641
TORILM
NCC019-021740-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1240 PM EDT WED SEP 2 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 140 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF
 
NORTH CAROLINA... EXTREME SOUTHERN BRUNSWICK
 
...AND ADJACENT WATERS.
 
AT 1239 PM A WATERSPOUT WAS SIGHTED BY THE COAST GUARD AT OAK ISLAND
THAT WAS HEADING TOWARD THE BEACH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH GET OUT OF
YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME AND FIND SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE
CLOSE TO YOU.  GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.
A BASEMENT IS BEST. COVER YOUR HEAD.
 
 
SMALL BOAT OPERATORS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE HARBOR IF
CONDITIONS BECOME THREATENING.
 
ALL MARINE INTERESTS IN THE PATH OF THIS WEATHER SHOULD TAKE EVASIVE
ACTION AND PREPARE FOR ROUGH SEA CONDITIONS AND HIGH WINDS.
 
HINN

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.