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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 21, 1997Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 21, 1997, 6:41 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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 21, 1997, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 1997, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Robeson County, NC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 21, 4:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 307 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 212242 RRA
SVRILM
NCC155-212330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
641 PM EDT MON APR 21 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

   ...NORTHERN ROBESON
 
AT 638 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WILMINGTON
DOPPLER RADAR 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF ST. PAULS MOVING EAST AT 28 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
        ST. PAULS               BY 641 PM EDT
        TOLARSVILLE             BY 653 PM EDT


 A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
PRODUCE TORNADOES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	48 min
Apr 21, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	48 min
Apr 21, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1997 Every 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.