Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 168, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1996, 5:44 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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 8, 1996, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robeson County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 8, 6:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Fairmont, NC |
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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
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.
NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 8, 2:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 2:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 257 PM EDT SUN SEP 8 1996 BRIEF AFD DUE TO WX... CONVECTION FIRING UP BIG TIME...MAINLY EAST OF THE SFC TROF AS UPPER AIR DYNAMICS INTERACTS WITH THE SFC TROF. MAY NEED TO CONTINU POPS UP TO MIDNITE WITH UPPER AIR SUPPORT HANGING BACK...AND AS MENTIONED BY RDU. ILM CWA WILL BE BETWEEN UPPER AIR SYSTEMS MON AND MUCH OF TUES. SFC TROF HOWEVER TO HANG ACROSS INLAND ILM CWA THRUOUT PERIOD WHICH WILL BE A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION. 30 POPS FOR MON...40-50 POPS FOR TUE DUE TO APPROACH OF NEXT UPPER AIR SYSTEM. MOISTURE IN ABUNDANCE THRUOUT THE PERIOD. TEMPS...LOW 90S INLAND...MID 80S CST BOTH DAYS. 70 TO 75 OVRNITE LOWS. GOING ALONG WITH SUMMER PERSISTENCE. CWF...NO DEVIANT WIND DIRECTION CHANGES EXPECTED THROUT THE PERIOD. S-SW WIND THRU THE PERIOD. STRONGER WINDS OVR NRTHRN ILM CWA THRUOUT THE PERIOD WITH STRNGER SFC PRESS GRADIENT EXPECTED. 10-15 KT SC WTRS...15 TO 20 NC-=SC BRDER TO NEW RIVER OR FURTHER NWRD... YOUR CALL MHX. ILM BT 072/089 073/088 074 631 FLO BT 071/092 072/090 072 531 DCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marion | 42 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.