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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 565

June 13, 199853 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 13, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT for 53 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 66 counties

Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	33 min
Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Duplin	43 min
Jun 13, 3:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Bladen	33 min
Jun 13, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Lee	32 min
Jun 13, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	36 min
Jun 13, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	35 min
Jun 13, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Hertford	36 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, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Chowan, Perquimans	35 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, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Camden, Pasquotank	50 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	AKQ	Bertie	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
Jun 13, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	34 min
Jun 13, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Greene	34 min
Jun 13, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Pitt	33 min
Jun 13, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	48 min
Jun 13, 5:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Washington	34 min
Jun 13, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	45 min
Jun 13, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Martin	31 min
Jun 13, 6:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MHX	Tyrrell	34 min
Jun 13, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Bertie	34 min
Jun 13, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Washington	49 min
Jun 13, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort	49 min
Jun 13, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hyde, Tyrrell	46 min
Jun 13, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Onslow	35 min
Jun 13, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick	45 min

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.