Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 5:25 PM EDT for New Hanover County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County New Hanover County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
584
WFUS1 KILM 132124 RRA
TORILM
NCC129-132200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
525 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A...
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NEW HANOVER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 524 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN THE
VICINITY OF WILMINGTON OR IN THE VICINITY OF MONKEY JUNCTION
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
MONKEY JUNCTION BY 524 PM EDT
WILMINGTON BY 524 PM EDT
MASONBORO BY 530 PM EDT
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH BY 535 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.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, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.