Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Wilmington, NC

Issued

Jul 5, 1997, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)

Expired

Jul 5, 1997, 5:25 PM EDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Wilmington, NC

Area

Whole counties

County Columbus County, NC

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

053 
WUUS1 KILM 052038
SVRILM
NCC047-052125-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
436 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 525 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

   ...COLUMBUS COUNTY

 
AT 433 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
5 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE WACCAMAW MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
        LAKE WACCAMAW           BY 440 PM EDT
        BOLTON                  BY 450 PM EDT
 
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A
STORM APPROACHES.  MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED
VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.  STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.

HEWITT
...CORRECTED FOR TIME IN BOLTON...

NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 5, 2:12 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
215 PM EDT SAT JUL 5 1997

RDU: STICK CLOSE TO GUID TEMPS THIS PACKAGE.  40 POPS FOR
TONIGHT...30 SUN AND SUN NIGHT/MON.

CWF: I WILL BE FOLLOWG THE FWC MOS WIND FOR DIRECTIONAL GUIDANCE AS
THEY HAVE OUTPERFORMED THE FOUS WINDS.  THIS MEANS THERE WILL BE A
BRIEF SHIFT TO THE NW OR N TONIGHT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO ILM BEFORE
FLOW REORIENTATES ITSELF S-SW LTR SUN.  IN ADDITION DIFFERENTIAL
HEATG IS CAUSING STRONGER WINDS ALONG THE E-W BEACHES AND THUS
HIGHER SEAS THAN INDICATED BY ILM.  MOVING THE SPLIT DOWN TO HAT
SOUNDS OK TO ME.  WINDS AFTER THIS EVENING WILL GENERALLY BE 15 KT
OR LESS AND NO SCA IS PLANNED ALTHOUGH DSNL MAY AGAIN REACH NR 25 KT
TONIGHT.

DISC: APPEARS THE CAP IS BROKEN AS TSRA RAPIDLY FIRING ALONG
SEA-BREEZE AND TMB ACROSS ESTRN NC.  TELCO WITH SELS AND WATCH WILL
BE ISSUED SHORTLY.  BIG CAPES AND HORRENDOUS INSTAB (NGM IS FCSTG
L.I. OF -12 AT ILM) WITH DRY MID LVLS MEANS TSRA WITH DAMAGING WIND
GUST POTENTIAL.  WBZ HEIGHS ARE NOT TOO HIGH CONSIDERING WARMTH OF
AIRMASS SO LARGE HAIL ALSO LIKELY.  AFTER TSRA THREAT TONIGHT...GUID
IS SUGGESTING A LGT NRLY FLOW ACROSS THE REGION WHICH IS FVRBL FOR
WIDESPREAD ST AND BR THROUGH SUN AM.

FRONT WILL BECOME LESS DEFINED SUN AND SUN NIGHT WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER
MEAN RH.  THUS POPS CAN BE LOWERED TO 20 BUT COLD MID LVL TEMPS AND
SEA-BREEZE CONVERGENCE WILL GENERATE WDLY SCT CELLS.  ON MON IT
APPEARS FRONT WILL ONCE AGAIN BECOME BETTER DEFINED WITH BETTER PCPN
CHS FOR NRN SECTIONS.  WITH LOW CONFIDENCE THIS FAR OUT KKEP POPS
ARND 20.

.MHX...NONE

JME

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.