Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 1999, 3:23 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 22 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 1999, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1999, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Brunswick County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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.
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 15, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 956 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KILM 151930 RRA
TORILM
NCC019-151945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED TO REMOVE COLUMBUS COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
323 PM EDT WED SEP 15 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT
* AT 322 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
BOLIVIA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF SOUTHPORT...MOVING WEST AT
45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BOLIVIA AT 330 PM EDT
SUPPLY AT 335 PM EDT
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE
BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK
THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVIaCE FORECAST
OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC.
$
LAT...LON 3388 7807 3407 7795 3433 7810 3434 7855
3414 7868
DRHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 4:27 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 3 hr |
| Sep 15, 7:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Pender | 20 min |
| Sep 15, 8:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 10:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 29 min |
| Sep 15, 2:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 5 hr |
| Sep 15, 2:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 5 hr |
| Sep 15, 2:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Brunswick, New Hanover | 33 min |
| Sep 15, 3:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 33 min |
| Sep 15, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus | 22 min |
| Sep 15, 7:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Columbus, Robeson | 6 hr |
| Sep 15, 7:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender | 6 hr |
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.