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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 3, 1997Florence County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1997, 2:26 PM EDT for Florence County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 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, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1997, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Florence County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 3:11 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Pamplico, 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 KCAE 031824 RRA
SVRILM
SCC041-031915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
ISSUED BY COLUMBIA SC
226 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...FLORENCE COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
OVER THE EFFINGHAM AREA MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST. THIS STORM WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL BETWEEN 3/4 INCH AND 1 INCH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT
THE EFFINGHAM AREA AND MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST TOWARD PAMLICO THROUGH 200
PM. THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT CLOUD 
GROUND LIGHTNING.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE
MOBILE HOMES.l  FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.  DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
MWC

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 36 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, 45 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, 11 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	46 min
Jun 3, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	37 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.