Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 28, 1995, 1:50 AM EDT for New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 1995, 1:50 AM EDT (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 1995, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1699 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KILM 280551 RRA SVRILM NCC141-129-280630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 150 AM EDT SAT OCT 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 AM EDT FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...PENDER COUNTY ...NEW HANOVER COUNTY AT 147 AM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED JUST EAST OF CASTLE HAYNE ALONG HIGHWAY 421 IN SOUTHERN PENDER COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPM... THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH LONG CREEK... ROCKY POINT AND CASTLE HAYNE BETWEEN 2 AND 215 AM. ALTHOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS STORM...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT WARNING FROM A SEVERE 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.
NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 27, 9:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 9:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 28, 12:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.