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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Wilmington, NC

September 7, 1996Marlboro County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 7, 1996, 6:54 PM EDT for Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 7, 1996, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired: Sep 7, 1996, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Marlboro County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 7, 7:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65	Bennettsville, SC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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.

NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 7, 1:51 PM EDT, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 7, 1:51 PM EDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 7, 12:36 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILM	Pender	12 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.