Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1994, 5:41 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 1994, 5:41 PM EDT (21:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pender County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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, Jul 28, 2:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
NCZ080-087-089-090-092>101-281935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 232 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN ONSLOW COUNTY... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AT 225 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED SOUTHWEST OF RICHLAND. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 2:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
NCZ080-087-089-090-092>101-281935- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 232 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN ONSLOW COUNTY... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AT 225 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED SOUTHWEST OF RICHLAND. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. ST6AY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before
NCZ080-087-089-090-092>101-282025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 323 PM EDT THU JUL 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CRAVEN AND ONSLOW COUNTIES... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AT 315 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR VANCEBORO TO THE WEST OF NEW BERN AND TO TOPSAIL BEACH. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN VANCEBORO AND NEW BERN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 3 TO 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS... HAIL... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Craven, Pamlico | 62 min |
| Jul 28, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 40 min |
| Jul 28, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Onslow | 50 min |
| Jul 28, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Craven, Pamlico | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.