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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 27, 1998Dillon County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this flash flood warning at May 27, 1998, 10:24 PM EDT for Dillon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1998, 10:24 PM EDT (02:24 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1998, 12:25 AM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Dillon County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 314 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1242 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at May 27, 9:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
911 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998

MOST FOLKS STILL BUSY SO WILL BE BRIEF. PER TELCO THE SVR THREAT IS
OVR IN MHX CWA AS ATMOS HAS BEEN WORKED ON QUITE HARD BY EARLIER
SHWRS/TSTMS. 00Z MHX SNDG WAS RELATIVELY STABLE WITH CAPE ONLY ARND
1000J. BEST INSTAB NOW FOCUSING FURTHER S. IT APPEARS SOME MORE
SHWRS AND A FEW RUMBLES WILL PASS OVR MHX CWA NEXT FEW HRS THEN MOST
OF THE ACTION EXITS CST AFT MIDNGT AS SHRTWV ENERGY GOES BYE BYE. WK
BNDRY WILL REMAIN ACRS THE REG OVN. THERE IS A GD CHC FOR FOG/LO
CLDS DVLPNG LTR BEC OF ALL THE RAIN AND LGT WNDS. WHERE WNDS ARE
N/NE THE FOG HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE DENSE. THU...DAY PROB STARTS
WITH LO CLDS/FOG THEN GETS BTR. RDG ALFT BLDS BACK OVR REG. AS RDG
BUILDS OVR TOP OF WK BNDRY IT WILL WKN EVEN MORE. DRIER AIR COMING
IN ALFT TOO WILL HELP BRNG SOME SUNSHINE AFTER LO CLDS/FOG DSPT.

CWF...NO FLGS. WNDS FAIRLY LGT OVN. DIRECTIONS KLIND OF TRICKY AS
CONVECTION HAS PLAYED HAVOC AND EXACT POSITION OF WK BNDRY IS TUFF
TO CALL.

.MHX...NONE.
GATES

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 8:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA
850 PM EST WED MAY 27 1998

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

710 PM     BENNETTSVILLE             SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/98   MARLBORO                       SEVERAL TREES DOWN
                                          PONDING OF WATER ON STREETS
                                          REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          DISPATCH

735 PM     FREEMAN                   NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/98   COLUMBUS                       REPORTED BY WEATHER SPOTTER

750 PM     BRUNSWICK                 NC   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/27/98   COLUMBUS                       REPORTED BY CO-OP OBSERVER

HOEHLER

Local storm report, May 27, 9:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA
905 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    ORRUM                     NC
05/27/98   ROBESON                        MAJOR DAMAGE 12-15 HOMES
                                          AND MINOR DAMAGE TO 60-70
                                          HOMES -POSSIBLE TORNADO OR
                                          BOW ECHO OR MACROBURST

Local storm report, May 27, 9:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION FOR DAMAGE REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA
905 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    ORRUM                     NC
05/27/98   ROBESON                        MAJOR DAMAGE 1-2 HOMES
                                          AND MINOR DAMAGE TO 15-20
                                          HOMES DUE TO BOW ECHO
                                          OR MACROBURST

Local storm report, May 27, 9:50 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 10:00 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 10:19 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick	51 min
May 27, 9:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover	34 min
May 27, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Marlboro	48 min
May 27, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	47 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in South Carolina, 1998 Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.