Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 3, 1997Georgetown County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1997, 5:12 PM EDT for Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Georgetown County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1997-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 845 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1997-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 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
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.

522 
WUUS1 KILM 032113 RRA
SVRILM
SCC043-032200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
ISSUED BY CHARLESTON SC
512 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...GEORGETOWN COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST
 
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO AFFECT GEORGETOWN COUNTY. AT 510 PM
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED TO THE WEST OF GEORGETOWN NEAR SAMPIT
AND US ROUTE 17A. THE STORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS IT DRIFTS SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DONT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 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, 4 hours 22 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, 3 hours 31 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 57 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, 12:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown46 min
Jun 3, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry37 min
Jun 3, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMFlorence49 min
Jun 3, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMMarion47 min
Jun 3, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMHorry37 min
Jun 3, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDarlington, Florence63 min
Jun 3, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMGeorgetown45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.