Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 3, 1997Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1997, 2:08 PM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 37 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, 2:08 PM EDT (18:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1997, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Horry County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 2:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	North Myrtle 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, 6.1 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 031810 RRA
SVRILM
SCC051-031845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
ISSUED BY CHARLESTON SC
208 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...HORRY COUNTY
 
AT 2 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL WAS
DEVELOPING QUICKLY BETWEEN CONWAY AND MYRTLE BEACH IN THE VICINITY OF
ROUTE 501. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND AFFECT
PRIMARILY INLAND LOCATIONS BETWEEN THE INTERCOASTAL WATERWAY AND
NIXONVILLE.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 12:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
1249 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1236 PM   PINK HILL                 NC
06/3/97   LENOIR                         MARBLE-SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
                                         LENOIR CO EMC.
CG

Local storm report, Jun 3, 1:41 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
139 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

110 PM   PHILLIPS CROSSROADS        NC
06/3/97   JONES                          GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
                                         JONES CO EMC.
CG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	46 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.