Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 3, 1997Georgetown County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1997, 12:49 PM EDT for Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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: Jun 3, 1997, 12:49 PM EDT (16:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1997, 1:35 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Georgetown County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 1:00 PM EDT	Hail 1.25	Sampit, 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 845 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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.

149 
WUUS1 KILM 031650 RRA
SVRILM
NCZ505-SCC043-031735-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1249 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 135 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA

   ...GEORGETOWN
 
AT 1245 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WILMINGTON
DOPPLER RADAR IN THE GEORGETOWN AREA MOVING
NORTH AT 11 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
        GEORGETOWN              BY 1257 PM EDT
        GRAVES                  BY 110 PM EDT
 
REMEMBER...LIGHTNING MAY STRIKE SOME MILES AWAY FROM THE PARENT
CLOUD.  PRECAUTIONS SHOULD BE TAKEN EVEN THOUGH THE THUNDERSTORM IS
NOT DIRECTLY OVERHEAD.

HEWITT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	37 min
Jun 3, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence	49 min
Jun 3, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Marion	47 min
Jun 3, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	37 min
Jun 3, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	63 min
Jun 3, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	45 min
Jun 3, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.