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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 13, 1998Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 4:29 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. 3 reports 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: Jun 13, 1998, 4:29 PM EDT (20:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1998, 5:05 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 13, 4:50 PM EDT	Hail 1	Riegelwood, NC
Jun 13, 5:02 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Leland, NC
Jun 13, 5:10 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Leland, NC

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 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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

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

152 
WFUS1 KILM 132030 RRA
TORILM
NCC019-047-132105-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
429 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  NORTHEASTERN COLUMBUS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 505 PM EDT

* AT 428 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 17 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF WILMINGTON OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MACO MOVING EAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
        MACO                    BY 435 PM EDT
        RIEGELWOOD              BY 435 PM EDT
        ACME                    BY 440 PM EDT


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.

SI/JAH

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, 4:36 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, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus	34 min
Jun 13, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	New Hanover	35 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.