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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 16, 2000Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 7:43 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 16, 2000, 7:43 PM EDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Robeson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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, 8:00 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	St Pauls, NC	Robeson 911 center reported golfball size hail and large garbage dumpsters blown over.
Jul 16, 8:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Lumberton, NC	Ham radio operator reported dime size 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 nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 176 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: 442 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1237 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

523 
WUUS52 KILM 162343
SVRILM
NCC155-170015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
743 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 742 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER BARKER TEN MILE...OR ABOUT
  6 MILES NORTH OF LUMBERTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   BARKER TEN MILE AT 750 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN
PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...
DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC.

$$

LAT...LON 3482 7906 3466 7916 3447 7889 3469 7883

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, 5 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 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, 4:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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

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

07/16/00   PENDER                    NC    1.00 TO 1.25 INCH
423 PM     WARDS CORNER                    HAIL                                            HAIL

07/16/00   PENDER                    NC    0.88 INCH HAIL AT
355 PM                                     HWY 53 AND 421

07/16/00   PENDER                    NC    0.88 INCH HAIL
435 PM     WATHA

MR

Local storm report, Jul 16, 5:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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

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

455 PM     WILLARD                   NC     1.00 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   PENDER                           NUMEROUS TREES
                                            AND LIMBS DOWN

MR

Local storm report, Jul 16, 5:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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

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

337 PM     5 S WHITEVILLE            NC     0.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS

355 PM     5 S WHITEVILLE            NC     0.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS                  NC
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MR

Local storm report, Jul 16, 5:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

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

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

423 PM     WARDS CORNER              NC     1.00 TO 1.25 INCH
07/16/00   PENDER                           HAIL                                            HAIL

435 PM     WATHA                     NC     0.88 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   PENDER

MR

Local storm report, Jul 16, 5:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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

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

337 PM     5 S WHITEVILLE            NC     0.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS

355 PM     5 S WHITEVILLE            NC     0.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS

MR

Local storm report, Jul 16, 5:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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

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

445 PM     PENDERLEA                 NC     1.75 TO 2.75 INCH
07/16/00   PENDER                           HAIL
                                            WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED
                                            60 MPH
                                            CROP DAMAGE AND LIMBS
                                            SNAPPED OFF TREETOPS
                                            BETWEEN SHILOH RD AND
                                            PENDERLEA HWY

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, 3:49 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.