Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1992, 9:09 PM EDT for Duplin County, Jones County, North Carolina. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1992, 9:09 PM EDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1992, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Duplin County, NC, Jones County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 190111 SVRILM NCC103-061-190215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 909 PM EDT MON MAY 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...JONES COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...DUPLIN COUNTY AT 905 PM RADARS SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO DUPLIN AND JONES COUNTIES. DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 MPH TO OVER 100 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.
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 18, 7:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
NCZ-017-190030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 750 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD BEAFORT...CRAVEN AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES... AT 730 PM...RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL IN PITT AND MARTIN COUNTIES IN THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA. OTHER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED THROUGH THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN ANY THUNDERSTORMS. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. NS
Special weather statement, May 18, 7:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
NCZ-017-190030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION FOR TYPO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 750 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD BEAUFORT...CRAVEN AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES... AT 730 PM...RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL IN PITT AND MARTIN COUNTIES IN THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA. OTHER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED THROUGH THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN ANY THUNDERSTORMS. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. NS
Special weather statement, May 18, 8:45 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
NCZ-016-017-190130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 845 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD DUPLIN...CRAVEN AND JONES COUNTIES... AT 830 PM...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL NEAR WASHINGTON...KINSTON AND GOLDSBORO IN THE COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA. OTHER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED THROUGH THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN ANY THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. RELAY ALL SEVERE WEATHER REPORTS TO YOUR SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT. ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
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.