Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 1998, 3:25 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. 2 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
- Sep 8, 1998, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1998, 3:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pender County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 3:25 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Willard, NC | |
| Sep 8, 3:27 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Willard, NC | A thunderstorm moved south across northern Pender County, dropping large hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1381 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
887
WFUS1 KILM 081926 RRA
TORILM
NCC141-081955-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
325 PM EDT TUE SEP 8 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A...
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN PENDER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 355 PM EDT
* AT 322 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 24
MILES NORTH OF WILMINGTON OR 5 MILES WEST OF BURGAW MOVING EAST
AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
BURGAW BY 335 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.
RA/TMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen, Robeson | 48 min |
| Sep 8, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 48 min |
| Sep 8, 3:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Columbus | 37 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.