Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1998, 8:54 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1998, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brunswick County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:53 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 507 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 937 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
306
WUUS1 KILM 280053 RRA
SVRILM
NCC019-280145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
854 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A...
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT
* AT 853 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL 8 MILES WEST OF WINNABOW
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THIS STORM WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
BOLIVIA BY 900 PM EDT
WINNABOW BY 900 PM EDT
BOILING SPRINGS LAKE BY 905 PM EDT
LELAND BY 910 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/HAWKINSWhat 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, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 7:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 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.
DCHIn the hours before
Local storm report, May 27, 7:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 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
HOEHLERLocal storm report, May 27, 7:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 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
HOEHLERLocal storm report, May 27, 7:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 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
HOEHLERLocal storm report, May 27, 8:05 PM EDT, 49 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
HOEHLERLocal storm report, May 27, 8:19 PM EDT, 35 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
HOEHLERLocal storm report, May 27, 8:51 PM EDT, 3 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
HOEHLERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 34 min |
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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.