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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 13, 1998Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 5:11 PM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 13, 1998, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1998, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1887 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 13, 2:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
228 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

RAH/CAE: CHC IN FOR ERLY TNGT THEN LET GO. SVR MNTN WORTH IT. 70
FOR THE CSTS & UPPER 60S INL. SUN...MS W/SML POP FOR SC CWA. MAXS
90-95 INL TO NR 90 CSTS. REST IS IN THE CCF. CWF: COORD W/MHX...WL
DROP SCA TNGT. OK CHS/CAE?. DIR NW TNGT & THEN SW LATE MON-TUE.
SPDS INCG TUE TO NR 20. NO FLAGS ATTM.

ZNS: 18Z ADAP HAD INCG MCON OVER INL AREAS W/LIS NR -10. SVR POTNTL
IS THERE ESP FM FAY TO RAH-MHX. RESULTANT BNDRY CUD CAUSE CONCERN
HERE AIDG IN CONVERGENCE W/APCHG PRE-FNTL. ETA GARP HAD HIGH SVR
INDEX NR THE CST BY 00Z. GOES SNDGS CAPES IMPRESSIVE W/60 KT JET @
H5 OVER FAY. KP MNTN OF SVR ESP NC THIS EVNG. CD FNT/UPPER VORT MOV
ACRS THE CWA TNGT HELPG TO DRY THGS OUT W/DWPTS DROPPG TO NR 65 BY
12Z. SOME CAA NOTED @ H8. A LTLE REPRIEVE ON MON W/SOME RDGG BUT WE
GO RGT BK INTO THE HEAT/HUMIDITY & THE THREAT FOR MORE TSRA BY MON
AS WARM FNT APCHS FM THE S. SOME POTNTL FOR TSRA ON SUN ESP SC END
W/HEATG & HIER THETA E AIR. ETA GARP/BUFKIT SHOWD 200+ HELICITIES
LATE SUN NGT W/APCH OF S/WV CUTTG THRU THE WK RDG MAINLY AFFECTG
FAY-FLO WWD. THETA E RDG IN THE MIDLANDS/SANDHLS BY 42-48 HRS. UVM
NOTED BY NOT OVERLY STG. GARP INDICATED H8-H7 RH INCG TO 70-80%
W/SOME DIR SHEAR. WAA ALSO IN PLACE 42-48 HRS. ISOLD SVR SUN NGT-
MON MRNG INL?. A FEW MORE RUNS WL CLARIFY THGS. 30% FOR SUN NGT
W/40% ON MON AS WM FNT COMES THRU & INSTABILITY INCS. SOME COOLER
AIR ALF ON MON. CUD B BUSY AGN BY 60 HRS. FAN/FWC CLOSE ON POPS
THRU THE PD. MAY NEED TO BUMP UP SOME ON MON. BLEND OF FAN/FWC FOR
MAXS ON CSTS. FWC USED FOR FAY/LBT. FAN/FWC CLOSE ON MINS.

CWF: SW 15-20 KTS IS ALL WE CUD REALLY MUSTER UP SO FAR. MGT C 20
KTS & GUSTY ERLY W/PER-FNTL & TSRA BUT WL KPP BLO SCA. AS FNT
CROSSES THE AREA OVERNGT...SHUD C DIR GO BK TO W-SW FM 36-48 HRS AS
NEXT BEGINS TO APCH THE AREA.

CCF: ILM 070/090 075/091 074 412
     FLO 068/093 073/092 073 323

THANX FOR COORD JH(MHX).
JOE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:50 AM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before

AMZ250-252-254-256-NCZ087-096-097-099>101-SCZ017-023-024-032>034-
039-046-141015-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1150 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST NORTH
CAROLINA THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO EARLY TONIGHT. THERE IS A MODERATE
RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER
THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND BOW ECHO TYPE
STORMS...ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE
POSSIBLE.

SKYWARN SPOTTERS...
NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

SYNOPSIS...
A PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH WILL MOVE EASTWARD ACROSS THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON. THEN A COLD FRONT MOVE SOUTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA
TONIGHT.

GROH

Local storm report, Jun 13, 3:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA
346 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

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

0310 PM    PARKTON                   NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/98   ROBESON                        TREES DOWN AND BARN BLOWN
                                          DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:20 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA
420 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

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

0403 PM    WHITE LAKE                NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/98   BLADEN                         TREES DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:39 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA
439 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

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

0421 PM    5 SE ATKINSON             NC   TORNADO
06/13/98   PENDER

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:50 PM EDT, 21 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
Jun 13, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Robeson	42 min
Jun 13, 3:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Bladen	33 min
Jun 13, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	64 min
Jun 13, 4:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Bladen	36 min
Jun 13, 4:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Pender	34 min
Jun 13, 4:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	36 min
Jun 13, 4:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	New Hanover	34 min
Jun 13, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	35 min
Jun 13, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	34 min
Jun 13, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	New Hanover	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm 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.