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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 3, 1997Brunswick County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1997, 2:17 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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
Jun 3, 1997, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1997, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Brunswick County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1997-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 26 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 12:00Z on 1997-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMHX 031816 RRA
SVRILM
NCC019-031845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
ISSUED BY NEWPORT NC
217 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 SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN BRUNSWICK COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LEELAND IN EASTERN BRUNSWICK
COUNTY AT 215 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY. THIS
THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF HEAVY RAINS IN EXCESS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IN
AN HOUR AND DIME SIZE HAIL. ALSO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR GUSTY WINDS IN
THE VICINITY OF THIS THUNDERSTORM.
 
IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS THUNDERSTORM YOU ARE URGED TO SEEK SHELTER.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO 0AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
CGG-G

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 27 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, 36 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
Local storm report, Jun 3, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
214 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997

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

205 PM   WALLACE                    NC
06/3/97   DUPLIN                         DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY
                                         FIRE DEPT.

CG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMPender46 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.