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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, NC

October 8, 1996Brunswick County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 8, 1996, 6:52 AM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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
Oct 8, 1996, 6:52 AM EDT (10:52 UTC)
Expired
Oct 8, 1996, 7:45 AM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Brunswick County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1996-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 37 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1996-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
518 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILM 081055 COR
TORILM
NCC019-081145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
652 AM EDT TUE OCT 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 AM EDT
FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

   ...BRUNSWICK COUNTY

AT 650 AM EDT...WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNDAO NEAR HOLDEN
BEACH. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH.

PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO A BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF
BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCH.

         ...CORRECTED FOR TIME...
HEWITT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 8, 4:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILMNew Hanover3 hr
Oct 8, 6:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILMBrunswick3 hr
Oct 8, 6:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBrunswick52 min
Oct 8, 6:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus50 min
Oct 8, 6:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMPender42 min
Oct 8, 7:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILMBrunswick3 hr
Oct 8, 7:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILMNew Hanover, Pender3 hr
Oct 8, 7:35 AM EDTTornado WarningILMNew Hanover, Pender25 min
Oct 8, 8:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILMBladen, Columbus3 hr

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.