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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Wilmington, NC

July 16, 2000Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 9:40 PM EDT for Brunswick County, Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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, 9:40 PM EDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2000, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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, 9:54 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Old Dock, NC	Whiteville 911 reported golfball size hail.
Jul 16, 9:57 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Ash, NC	911 center reported golfball 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 544 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KILM 170140
SVRILM
NCC019-047-170230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 935 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER OLD DOCK...OR ABOUT 9
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   FREELAND AROUND 1015 PM EDT
   ASH AROUND 1020 PM EDT 
   SUPPLY AT 1030 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.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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 3435 7867 3419 7876 3396 7827 3419 7814

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, 9:18 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 9:18 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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

COLD POOL ALOFT CONTINUING THE DECENT INSTABILITY ACROSS THE
FA...UPPER TROF ALSO ADDING SOME DYNAMICS. SFC TROF ALONG WITH
RECENT OUTFLOW BNDRIES ALSO FUELING CELLS CURRNTLY MOVG ACROSS THE
FA. MUCH OF THE ACTIVITY SHULD BE OVERWITH ARND MIDNIGHT AND WILL
HIGHLIGHT IN THE ZNS. OTHERWISE SKIES BECOMING MSTLY CLR...BUT WILL
ADD AREAS OF FOG ACROSS LOCATIONS RECEIVING RAINFALL AND HAIL. CURRNT
FCSTD TEMPS ARE IN THE BALLPARK.

CWF...SFC TROF TO HANG ALONG THE COAST OVRNITE. THERE4 WILL KEEP SW
WINDS AHEAD OF IT. MODEST SFC PG PER MSAS OUTPUT TO GIVE ARND 15
KTS.

.ILM...NONE.

DCH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 5:20 PM EDT, 4 hours 20 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, 4 hours 19 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, 3 hours 45 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

Local storm report, Jul 16, 7:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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

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

0727 PM    DUART                     NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   BLADEN                         REPORTED BY OFF DUTY
                                          OFFICER

MR

Local storm report, Jul 16, 8:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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

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

0820 PM    BLADENBORO                NC   .75 TO 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   BLADEN                         REPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF

0820 PM    TAR HEEL                  NC   .75 TO 1.75 INCH HAIL.
07/16/00   BLADEN                         RDEPORTED BY COUNTY SHERIFF

MR

Local storm report, Jul 16, 9:20 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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

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

0920 PM    LAKE WACCAMAW             NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/00   COLUMBUS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	47 min
Jul 16, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	48 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.