Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 19
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 16, 1997, 4:45 AM EST for Screven County, Georgia; 45 counties in North Carolina; 21 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 1997, 4:45 AM EST (09:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 16, 1997, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 67 counties
Screven County, GA, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
4 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 6:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Greene | 47 min |
| Jan 16, 6:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Pitt | 32 min |
| Jan 16, 8:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 39 min |
| Jan 16, 9:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MHX | Dare | 23 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 16, 12:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Cook and 13 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.