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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 23, 1997Bladen County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1997, 3:22 PM EDT for Bladen County, North 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 23, 1997, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1997, 4:10 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Bladen County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 23, 2:45 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:45 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
245 PM EDT MON JUN 23 1997

RDU & CAE: CARRY PCPN ASSOCD WITH FNT/SEA BRZ THRU EVE HRS...CLRG
LTR TNGT. SUNNY AND CONTD HOT TUE AS RDG BLDS IN.

DISC: SHRA/TSRA HV DVLPD OVR AREA IN ASSOCN WITH FNT DROPPING S THRU
CNTRL NC AND DVLPG SEA BRZ. XPC ACTVTY TO CONT INTO EVE TIL LOSS OF
HTG. AFTWDS...XPC SOME CLRG AS BLDG HI PRES SPRDS DRIER AIR INTO RGN.
WITH MOIST SFC AND LGT WNDS FOG FORMATION PSBL. TEMPS IN LO 70S TNGT.
HI PRES...SFC AND ALF...CONTS TO BLD INTO RGN TUE AND RMN DMNT THRU
THE PD. TUE SHOULD BE MSTLY SUNNY WITH TEMPS LO 90S INLD...UPR 80S
CST.

FOR CSTL WTRS...NO CHG.

ILM UU 070/090 070/090 070 21020
FLO UU 069/092 070/090 070 21000

DTR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	26 min
Jun 23, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown	21 min
Jun 23, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	47 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.