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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 21, 1992Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1992, 1:50 PM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1992, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1992, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Columbus County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 643 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 211751
SVRILM
NCC047-211845-

BULLETIN  IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  WILMINGTON NC
150 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 1992 

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF

NORTH CAROLINA...COLUMBUS COUNTY 

AT 150 PM TREE LIMBS WERE REPORTED BLOWN DOWN BY DAMAGING WINDS
NEAR EVERGREEN IN WESTERN COLUMBUS COUNTY. HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED..
SIZE UNKNOWN.

WEATHER RADAR SHOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THIS AREA THAT
WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY CAUSE DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL..FREQUENT
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LOCAL FLOODING. SEEK( SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

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 21, 10:50 AM EDT, 3 hours before

NCZ015-211700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1045 AM EDT SUN JUN 21 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA...PARTS OF NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL
WATERS UNTIL 3 PM.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.  PERSONS IN
THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

AT 1030 AM...RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF FAYETTEVILLE IN THE SANDHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA.  THIS
STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS
ALONG WITH VERY FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING VERY RAPIDLY EAST AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR

TOWARD SAMPSON COUNTY IN THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN.  PERSONS
IN SAMPSON COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER AS THIS
THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO.

ELSEWHERE SHOWERS WERE OVER THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA
AROUND RALEIGH.  THESE SHOWERS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AROUN\D 40 MILES
AN HOUR.

JH

Local storm report, Jun 21, 12:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
 1223 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 1992

 TIME        EVENT
1145 AM      CLINTON/ SAMPSON COUNTY
             GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY HAM RADIO SPOTTERd

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 11:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Sampson	25 min
Jun 21, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin	50 min
Jun 21, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Onslow	55 min
Jun 21, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	60 min
Jun 21, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	46 min
Jun 21, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Sampson	29 min
Jun 21, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.