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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 16, 2000Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 3:49 PM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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: Jul 16, 2000, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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 nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

267 
WUUS52 KILM 161949
SVRILM
NCC047-162045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LARGE HAIL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
349 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COLUMBUS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 347 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL NEAR WHITEVILLE...MOVING 
  NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   EVERGREEN AT 400 PM EDT
   LAKE WACCAMAW AT 410 PM EDT
   BOLTON AT 420 PM EDT
   RIEGLEWOOD AT 435 PM EDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
230 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

CLOSED LOW OVER GREAT LAKES THIS AFTN TO LIFT NE AND OPEN UP
OVERNIGHT. H5 TROUGH AXIS IS EXPECTED TO PUSH OFF THE COAST EARLY
MON. SFC TROF WHICH HAS BEEN WAFFLING AROUND THE CWA LAST COUPLE OF
DAYS SHOULD FINALLY PUSH OFFSHORE MON AFTN. NOT REALLY EXCITED OVER
THE CHANCE OF PCPN TONIGHT/EARLY MON GIVEN THE ABUNDANT INSTABILITY
LAST 36 HOURS AND LACK OF ANY SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION. WILL CONTINUE
WITH ONGOING DRY FCST UNLESS LATE AFTN CONVECTION WARRANTS AN
EVENING POP. WOULD NOT BE SHOCKED TO SEE AN ISOLATED TSTM AFTER
MIDNIGHT GIVEN H5 PVA AS TROF AXIS MOVES OVERHEAD...BUT AS MENTIONED
EARLIER...LACK OF SIGNIFICANT CONVECTION SO FAR MAKES THE DECISION
TO LEAVE OUT POPS A LITTLE EASIER.

WED NIGHT/THU S/WV LOOKS WEAKER AND FURTHER NORTH THAN PREVIOUS RUN
SO WILL LEAVE FCST DRY THROUGH EXTENDED.

CWF: WEAK SFC LOW BETWEEN MYR AND CHS RESULTING IN SE WINDS AT FPSN7
AND SE WINDS AT 41004. FLOW EXPECTED TO BECOME NWLY AS THE TROUGH
MOVES OFFSHORE EARLY MON. MODELS NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH SFC FEATURES
ALONG THE COAST MON WITH ETA KEEPING A WEAK LOW OVER SRN SC COAST.
WILL LIKELY OPT FOR THE AVN/NGM SOLUTIONS WHICH ARE IN BETTER
AGREEMMENT AND BRING NW TO W WINDS OVER THE WATERS MON. SPEEDS 15
KTS OR LESS AND SEAS GENERALLY 3-4 FT.

PRELIM CCF:
ILM UB 070/092 070/093 073 33110
FLO UB 069/094 069/095 072 33110
MYR UB 071/089 070/089 073 33210

.ILM...NONE.

MORGAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:28 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
328 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0320 PM    1 N TABOR CITY            NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS                      0328 PM    TABOR CITY                NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS                      1537 PM    5 S WHITEVILLE            NC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS                      1600 PM    5 S WHITEVILLE            NC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS                      MR

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, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	59 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.