Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 3, 1997Georgetown County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT for Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 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, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Georgetown County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 4:20 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Outland, 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, 8.3 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 032015 RRA
SVRILM
SCC043-032100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
ISSUED BY CHARLESTON SC
415 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...GEORGETOWN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST
 
AT 410 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS RAPIDLY DEVELOPING BETWEEN RHEMS
AND ANDREWS ALONG STATE ROUTE 41 IN WESTERN GEORGETOWN COUNTY. THIS
DANGEROUS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HAIL ONE-INCH OR LARGER...AND
WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. IT WILL PASS IN THE VICINITY OF
GEORGETOWN FROM 430 TO 445 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FdROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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.

NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 3:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
304 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997

RDU: WHAT A DAY. SPD MAX MOVG NEWD ARND TROF/DIFFERENTIAL HEATING AND
COLD POOL ALFT MAKING LIFE BUSY OVR HERE THIS AFT. THIS WILL PERSIST
CNTRL/SRN AREAS FOR A WHILE THEN DMNSH LTR WITH LOSS OF HEAT. FNT
OOZES SWD THRU ERN NC TNT. LOW CLDS WILL PERSIST ALL NGT WHERE FNT
HAS ALRDY PASSED UP N AND LO CLDS WILL ADVECT INTO CNTRL/SRN AREAS
AND CLDY FOR TNT IS FINE. EVE SHWR/TSTM THREAT DOWN S THEN CHC SHRA
OR DRIZZLE LTR ON...MAINLY LIGHT SHWR OR DRIZZLE CHC UP N.

WED...UNSEASONABLY COOL TEMPERATURES AND CLDS WILL BE THE FLAVOR OF
THE DAY. READINGS PROB WONT GET OUT OF THE 60S AT MANY SPOTS WHICH
IS IMPRESSIVE FOR JUNE. MOISTURE REMAINS TRAPPED UNDR INVERSION OR
LARGE ISOTHERMAL LYR MOST OF DAY.

THU: UNBELEIVEABLE...NEXT E CST TROF TAKING SHAPE. LO LVL FLOW BECMG
MORE EASTERLY AND CLDS WILL LIKELY WIN OUT AGAIN. COULD SEE
TROFINESS ALFT BRINGING A CHC FOR SOME SHWRS.

CWF...NE FLOW WILL BE FRISKY UP AND DOWN THE CST. MARGINAL SCA DOWN
S BUT WANT TO PUT SCA UP BEC SEAS WILL BE 5-6 FT WHICH IS NASTY.

.MHX...SCA CSTL WTRS AND SNDS.
GATES

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 3, 12:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 25 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, 2 hours 34 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 hours 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, 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, 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.