Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 8:56 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
- May 29, 1996, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1996, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bladen County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Lisbon, 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1587 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.3
- Supercell composite
- -1.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 63 min |
| May 29, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 49 min |
| May 29, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 48 min |
| May 29, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 60 min |
| May 29, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Florence | 33 min |
| May 29, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Marion | 47 min |
| May 29, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry | 46 min |
| May 29, 10:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Horry | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.