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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Wilmington, NC

October 28, 1995Dillon County, Marion County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 28, 1995, 12:01 AM EDT for Dillon County, Marion County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 28, 1995, 12:01 AM EDT (04:01 UTC)
Expired: Oct 28, 1995, 12:45 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dillon County, SC, Marion County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 1114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 280402 COR
TORILM
SCC033-067-280445-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1201 AM EDT SAT OCT 28 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA

   ...DILLON
   ...MARION
 
AT MIDNIGHT EDT...WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
3 MILES NORTHWEST OF PEE DEE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE AROUND...
        OAK GROVE...MARION AND LATTA BY 1215 AM EDT
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

SQI

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Oct 27, 9:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 27, 9:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
900 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

RAH/CAE: TRENDS OF PUBLIC AND MARINE FCSTS ON TARGET.

NOT MUCH CHANGES NEEDED TO CURNT FORECASTS. MAY NEED TO ADJUST TEMPS
UP A NOTCH OVR NORTH MIDLANDS OF SC. POPS OK WITH ONSET OF PCPN OVR
PRTNS OF CWA BEGINNG ARND MIDNITE...USING SAT LUPS AND 88-D LUPS OF
SVRL SURROUNDING 88-D RDRS TO CONFRM THIS.

LATEST ADAP ANAL CONTINUS TO SHOW LOWST STAB INDICES OVR ESTRN PRTNS
OF THE CAROLINS WITH CONTINUD GUD MOIST CNVRGNC OVR THE CNTRL CAROLINS
LATEST KLTX VWP SHOWIN GUD DIRCTIONAL SHEAR AT THE LOWEST LVLS..CURNTLY
NOT MUCH CLDS OVR AREA TO GIV A BTTR LUK AT WIND PROFILE. QUICK GLANC
OF MHX RAOB SNDG ON SHARP...CONTINUES TO POINT TOWARDS CONTINUING THE
POTENTIAL FOR SVR WX ACROSS AREA.

DCH

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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.