Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1998, 2:44 PM EST for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 1998, 2:44 PM EST (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robeson County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Lumberton, NC | SHERIFF REPORTED 3 MOBILE HOMES DESTROYED, OUT BUILDINGS DAMAGED, TREES DOWNED ALONG RICE AND QUINCY ROADS. DAMAGE PATH WAS SPOTTY. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KILM 081944 RRA
TORILM
NCC155-082015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
244 PM EST SUN MAR 8 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A...
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ROBESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 315 PM EST
* AT 241 PM EST... LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN JUST EAST OF LUMBERTON ON BROAD BRIDGE RD MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
THIS STORM IS REPORTED TO HAVE BLOWN DOWN BARNS & TREES IN THE LONG
BRANCH AND BROAD BRIDGE AREAS.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
SMITHS BY 245 PM EST
TOLARSVILLE BY 250 PM EST
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LAY
DOWN IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LGE
&The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 3:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 17 min |
| Mar 8, 3:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 44 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.