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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 30, 1996Florence County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1996, 3:29 AM EDT for Florence County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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: Apr 30, 1996, 3:29 AM EDT (07:29 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 1996, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Florence County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Apr 30, 2:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 2:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT NC
205 AM EDT TUE APR 30 1996

THINGS POISED AND WAITG TO GO THIS AM. ADAP LI -4...CAPES ARND 1800
...THETAE RDG OVR AREA. WNDS STARTG TO PIK UP OVR ERN NC AS LO LVL
GRAD TITENS AHD OF APPCHG FNT. STG 850H JET...ARND 50 KT...WL CONT
TO PUMP MSTR INTO AREA THRUOUT DAY. XPCT FROPA ARND MDNGT TNGT WI
COOLR DRIER AREA INTO AREA. ANTHR SHOT FCST TO MV THRU AREA WED NGT
BUT NO MSTR AND DYNAMICS LMTD SO DONT XPCT MUCH OUT OF IT. UPR FLO
BCMG SEMI ZONAL OVR ERN HALF OF CNTRY BY WKEND WI SFC RDG IN PLACE
AS ANTHR STRM STARTS TO BLD OVR THE ROCKIES.

WL CONT GALES OVR CSTL WTRS. CRRNT FCST CONTS ON TRACK.  CGG-G

.MHX...GALE WARNG CSTL WTRS ANDZ SNDS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 29, 10:20 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 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
Apr 30, 9:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender	54 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.