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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 7, 1997New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1997, 6:10 PM EDT for New Hanover County, Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports 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: Jul 7, 1997, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1997, 6:35 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 7, 6:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Wrightsville Beach, NC	TREES DOWN IN THE LANDFALL COMMUNITY NEAR WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH
Jul 7, 6:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Murraysville, NC	TREES DOWN ON MURRAYVILLE ROAD

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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 1752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 072220 RRA
TORILM
NCC129-141-072240-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
610 PM EDT MON JUL 7 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 635 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

   ...NEW HANOVER COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN PENDER COUNTY
A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS MOVING TO EAST 2 MILES NORTH OF WILMINGTON.
THIS STORM WILL AFFECT CASTLE HAYNE...OGDEN AND WRIGHTSBORO.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

HEWITT/GROH

...CORRECTED FOR COUNTIES...

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover	47 min
Jul 7, 6:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	119 min
Jul 7, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus, Pender	50 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.