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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 27, 1998Horry County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1998, 8:18 PM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 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: May 27, 1998, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1998, 9:05 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Horry County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 147 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KILM 280018 RRA
SVRILM
SCC051-280105-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
818 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A...

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  HORRY COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 905 PM EDT

* AT 816 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  11 MILES WEST OF GREEN SEA MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
        GREEN SEA               BY 835 PM EDT
        LORIS                   BY 835 PM EDT

DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
ARE EXPECTED. SEEK SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED...EXCEPT IN AN EMERGENCY. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

HEWITT/HAWKINS

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 May 27, 7:45 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 7:45 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
745 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998

WILL BE QUICK...

ADAP PARAMETERS AND LATEST GOES SNDINGS INDICATE CONTINUED
THREAT FOR TSRA AND ISOLATED SVR THRUOUT THE EVENIMG HRS...
EVEN AFTR DAYS HTG DONE. NUMEROUS BNDRYS ACROSS AND IN THE
VICINITY OF THE ILM CWA. THESE WILL CONTINUE AIDING TSRA
RE-GENERATION. CONTINUE HIGH POPS TILL ARND MIDNITE.
CONTINUE MENTIONING FOG...PSBLY DENSE ACROSS LOCATIOdNS BY
DAYBREAK.

TEMPS...MOISTURE LADEN AIR AND LACK OF ANY LOWER DEWPTS MOVING
IN. WULD UP LOW TEMPS TO BETWEEN 70-75.

WINDS...WILL CONTINUE CURRENT TRENDS...WITH ONLY MINOR TWEAKING
EXPECTED.
                            DCH

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 6:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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

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

505 PM     20 MILES NW LUMBERTON     NSC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/98   ROBESON                        SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          PINE TREE DOWN IN THE VICINITY
                                          OF LUMBER BRIDGE TOWNSHIP

524 PM     FAIRMONT                  NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/98   ROBESON                        SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          MARBLE-SIZED HAIL IN THE
                                          CITY OF FAIRMONT

HOEHLER

Local storm report, May 27, 6:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECT 1ST REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NORTH CAROLINA
546 PM EST WED MAY 27 1998

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

505 PM     20 MILES NW LUMBERTON     NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/98   ROBESON                        SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          PINE TREE DOWN IN THE VICINITY
                                          OF LUMBER BRIDGE TOWNSHIP

524 PM     FAIRMONT                  NC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/98   ROBESON                        SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          MARBLE-SIZED HAIL IN THE
                                          CITY OF FAIRMONT

HOEHLER

Local storm report, May 27, 7:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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

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

537 PM     ORRUM                     NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/98   ROBESON                        TREES DOWN
                                          POWER LINES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          DISPATCH

545 PM     ORRUM                     NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/98   ROBESON                        REPORTED BY WEATHER SPOTTER

HOEHLER

Local storm report, May 27, 7:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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

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

605 PM     ORRUM                     NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/98   ROBESON                        PUBLIC UTILITY SERVICE
                                          REPORTED SEVERAL TREES DOWN
                                          AT INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS
                                          130 AND 74

HOEHLER

Local storm report, May 27, 7:20 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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

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

702 PM     BENNETTSVILLE             SC   .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/98   MARLBORO                       REPORTED BY WEATHER
                                          SPOTTER AS HE WAS
                                          DRIVING HOME

HOEHLER

Local storm report, May 27, 8:05 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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

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

537 PM     ORRUM                     NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/98   ROBESON                        TREES DOWN
                                          POWER LINES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          DISPATCH

545 PM     ORRUM                     NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/98   ROBESON                        REPORTED BY WEATHER SPOTTER

HOEHLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Marlboro	48 min
May 27, 10:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILM	Dillon	2 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.