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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 9, 1988Onslow County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1988, 7:09 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 9, 1988, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1988, 8:10 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Onslow 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
Jun 9, 7:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Onslow, NC
Jun 9, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Onslow, 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

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 875 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 9, 5:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILMINGTON NC
605 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1988

TIME      EVENT
1800 EDT   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL NEAR SPIVEYS CORNER IN NORTHERN
           SAMPSON COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA.

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:15 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILMINGTON NC
615 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1988

TIME      EVENT
1813 EDT   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT DOVER AND AT FORT BARNWELL
          IN NORTHERN CRAVEN COUNT4Y.

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:25 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILMINGTON NC
625 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1988

TIME      EVENT
1822 EDT   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED FAISON IN NORTHWEST DUPLIN
          COUNTY.

Local storm report, Jun 9, 6:34 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILMINGTON NC
633 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1988

TIME      EVENT
1826 EDT  HAIL SIZE 3.5 INCHES ON BRIARWOOD LANE IN NEW BERN...CRAVEN
          COUNTY...PUBLIC REPORT

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:42 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
640 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1988

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM TONIGHT
    FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 630 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
NEAR ELIZABETH CITY...IN THE ALBEMARLE SOUND NORTH OF COLUMBIA...AND
NEAR SWANQUARTER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCLUDED WITHIN A WIDESPREAD
AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA
AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE WEATHER OFFICE AT CAPE
HATTERAS WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA.

THE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WNAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

BT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 3:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Sampson	42 min
Jun 9, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin	58 min
Jun 9, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Sampson	63 min
Jun 9, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Craven	42 min
Jun 9, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin	59 min
Jun 9, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Beaufort, Pamlico	63 min
Jun 9, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Jones	57 min
Jun 9, 7:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Onslow	48 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.