Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 2, 1997, 2:04 AM EST for Columbus County, North 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
- Nov 2, 1997, 2:04 AM EST (07:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 2, 1997, 2:50 AM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbus County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 Nov 2, 1:49 AM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 2, 1:49 AM EST, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 149 AM EST SUN NOV 2 1997 QUITE AN ACTIVE EARLY PART OF MIDNIGHT SHIFT THIS MORNING WITH WARNINGS GALORE. DISCO WILL BE LATE AND WILL TRY TO GET SOMETHING OUT WHEN CONDS WARRANT. LGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2, 12:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 9 min |
| Nov 2, 12:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 24 min |
| Nov 2, 1:01 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Williamsburg | 19 min |
| Nov 2, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 31 min |
| Nov 2, 1:24 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Horry, Marion | 31 min |
| Nov 2, 1:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 46 min |
| Nov 2, 1:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Marion | 46 min |
| Nov 2, 1:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 47 min |
| Nov 2, 2:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 59 min |
| Nov 2, 2:16 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 34 min |
| Nov 2, 2:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 31 min |
| Nov 2, 3:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 45 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.