Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1993, 7:28 PM EST for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1993, 7:28 PM EST (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1993, 8:30 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Onslow County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 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 250028 SVRILM NCC133-250130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 728 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...ONSLOW COUNTY AT 725 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING ONSLOW COUNTY WEST OF RICHLANDS. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. &
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, Mar 24, 3:51 PM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
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
Local storm report, Mar 24, 7:10 PM EST, 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
710 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993
TIME EVENT
632 PM DUPLIN COUNTY...DIME TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL IN MAGNOLIA
REPORTED BY THE DUPLIN COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT
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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.