Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1996

Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 10, 1996Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 1996, 6:53 PM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 10, 1996, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1996, 7:25 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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
Jul 10, 6:53 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Cherry Grove Beach, SC

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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 311 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1082 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 102253
TORILM
NCZ505-SCC051-102325-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
653 PM EDT WED JUL 10 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA

   ...NORTHEASTERN HORRY
 
AT 649 PM EDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY A SPOTTER 2
MILES SOUTHEAST OF LITTLE RIVER MOVING WEST AT 12 MPH.

THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE AROUND...
        LITTLE RIVER            BY 700 PM EDT
        NIXON CROSSROADS        BY 703 PM EDT

A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A WATERSPOUT OFFSHORE OF CHERRY GROVE
MOVING TOWARD THE COAST.

 
IF |YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

&

IRELAND

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jul 10, 3:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
3 PM EDT WED JUL 10 1996

RAH & CAE: GOING TRND.

DISC: CURRENTLY...88D SHWG SEA BRZ ACTVTY DVLPG OVR INLD CSTL SECS...
MOVG ENE. XPC SCT RW/TRW ASSOCD WITH SEA BRZ TO CONT THRU AFTN/EVE
HRS. OTRW...LTL CHG IN OVR ALL PTN WITH CDFNT RMNG STNRY ALG THE
NC/SC CSTS. MDLS STILL SHWG THEIR USUAL DIFFERENCES IN HNDLG MOVMNT
OF HRCN BERTHA. ETA THE SLOEST WHILE AVN/NGM SEEM TO BE IN LN WITH
EACH OTHER. AT ANY RATE...STM  PROJECTED TO VCNTY CAROLINA CSTS
SOMETIME THU. INTRACTN BTN STALLED FNT AND HRCN WILL INCR CHC OF
CNVTV ACTVTY OVR AREA THU PD. XPC TEMPS IN 70S AGN TNGT. SLGTLY
COOLER THU WITH PLENTY OF CLDS...80-85 SOUNDS GOOD. FOR CSTL WTRS..
CONT CURRENT TRND.

ILM TT 071/083 070/085 073 21475
FLO ET 070/086 068/090 072 21144

DTR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 6:44 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILM	Horry	2 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1996 Every tornado warning in 1996 Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.