Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 1996, 3:08 AM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina; Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 1996, 3:08 AM EDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 1996, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbus County, NC, Horry County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 11, 2:53 AM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 11, 2:53 AM EDT, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 245 AM EDT WED SEP 11 1996 RAH/CAE: MGT WANT TO SHAVE TEMPS DUE TO CLD CVR/PCPN. THK POPS CUD B RAISED FOR SC CWA. SE NC LUK FINE. FFA FOR NC CWA. WHAT DO U THK ABT FFA FOR NE SC?. CWF: VRBL OR S WNDS TDY. SPDS 10 KTS OR LESS. RWS/TRWS CUD LOWER VSBYS TO < 1 NM. SSW TNGT INTO THU. HOW DOES THIS SND?. SEE NO FLAGS THRU PD. DISC: NO ETA TO LUK AT THIS MRNG DUE TO CRAY PROBS AT NCEP. DID COMPARE NGM/AVN REAL QUIK & WL GO W/GNRL COMP OF THE 2 FOR NOW. 00Z NGM MATCHED UP PRETTY WELL W/WHAT 00Z RUC WAS SHOWG. KLTX RDR INDICATG SWATH OF RWS/TRWS MOVG NEWD THRU MIDLANDS/GRAND STRAND RGN TWD SE NC CWA. 1 HR PCPN EST OF 1"/HR OVR NE SC. WV LOOP SHOWG PLENTY OF TROPCL MSTR GETTG PULLED NEWD W/STALLED FNTL BNDRY OVR CNTRL CAROLINAS. 00Z RAOBS SHOWG MOIST SOUNDGS W/PWS 2" OR MORE. WNDS FIELD WK THRU H5. ATMOS DEFINTLEY POISED FOR HVY RAIN EVENT. MDLS SHOW S/WV MOVG NEWD ALG THE BNDRY THIS MRNG MOVG THRU ILM CWA ARND 12. THIS FTRE CUD BRING SOME FLDG PROBS TO CWA BY MRNG COMMUTE. BY AFTN...NOT MUCH IN WAY OF UVM TO KICK THGS OFF. BUT...COMBO OF THETA E RDG/CONVERGENT BNDRYS/H7-H3 TROF/DEEP LOW LVL MSTR SHUD ALL PLAY A ROLE IN KPG LIKELY TO CAT POPS GOING INTO TNGT. NGM LIS -5-7 THRU 48 HRS. SINCE RGN HAS BEEN BOMBARDED W/RNFL THE PAST 3 DAYS...WUDN/T TAKE MUCH TO GET FLDG. FFA LUKS GUD. AS STATED ABV...THK SC CWA MGT B WORTH LUKG AT FOR FFA. WHAT DOES CAE THK?. FNTL BNDRY TO SLIDE SLOWLY ACRS THE RGN TNGT INTO THU AS AN AREA OF LOW PRES MOVS EWD TO DRAGG BNDRY EWD. UPPER LVL TROF FCST TO SWG THRU BY 8 HRS W/COOLER & DRIER AIR COMG IN. AS IF WE HAVE HAD ENUF W/HRCNS THIS SUMMER...WL HAVE TO KP EYE ON HRCN HORTENSE MOVG ACRS BAHAMAS. LUKS LIKE IT CUD TAKE A TURN TO N CAUSING SOME CONERN TO SE U.S. CST. NOT AGAIN!!. HOPEFULLY UPPER LVL TROF WL RECURVE IT OUTTA HERE!!!. PLAYED CLOSE TO FWC NMBRS FOR THIS FCST PD SINCE I HAVEN/T HAD A CHC TO SEE FAN. CSTL WTRS: AS MNTND ABV...FEEL LGT S WNDS TDY. W/WNDS LESS THAN 10 KTS...CUD PSBLY GO W/VRBL. WL LVE IT TO U FOLKS. LIKE SSW DIR TNGT INTO THU. SEAS SHUD RUN NEAR 3-4 FT THRU PD. CCF: ILM 081/072 082/069 084 09864 FLO 078/070 082/068 085 09853 HAVE GREAT DAY!. JOE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 6:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 9:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 3 hr |
| Sep 11, 11:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.