Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 3:46 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 min. 4 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
- Jul 16, 2000, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 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 19:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 4:23 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Wards Corner, NC | |
| Jul 16, 4:37 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Watha, NC | |
| Jul 16, 4:40 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Penderlea, NC | Golfball to as large as softball size hail fell in Penderlea. Extensive crop damage was noted, and large limbs were reported snapped off the treetops. A storm survey estimated the winds at 60 to 70 mph. |
| Jul 16, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Willard, NC | Quarter size hail and numerous trees down were reported. The wind estimate is unknown. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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
- 725 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1285 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KILM 161947 SVRILM NCC141-162045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 346 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PENDER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 342 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CURRIE... OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LELAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ATKINSON AT 405 PM EDT WARDS CORNER AT 415 PM EDT ROCKY POINT AT 420 PM EDT BURGAW AT 430 PM EDT WATHA AT 435 PM EDT REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC. $$ CRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 66 min |
| Jul 16, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 56 min |
| Jul 16, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | New Hanover | 64 min |
| Jul 16, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 51 min |
| Jul 16, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 32 min |
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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.