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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 8, 2000Dillon County, Marion County, South Carolina; Robeson County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2000, 4:33 PM EDT for Dillon County, Marion County, South Carolina; Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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: Apr 8, 2000, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Robeson County, NC, Dillon County, SC, Marion County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:33 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
Apr 8, 4:41 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Dillon, SC	Sherriff reported a tree down across SC Hwy 57.
Apr 8, 4:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Fairmont, NC	Robeson county sherriff's department reported trees and large branches across a road.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 8, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 394 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KILM 082034
SVRILM
NCC155-SCC033-067-082100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
433 PM EDT SAT APR 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA
  DILLON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA
  ROBESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 431 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS FROM 4 MILES WEST
  OF LITTLE ROCK TO 4 MILES WEST OF DILLON TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  PEE DEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
  LITTLE ROCK AT 430 PM EDT
  DILLON AT 435 PM EDT
  ROWLAND AT 440 PM EDT
  PURVIS AT 445 PM EDT
  RAYNHAM AT 450 PM EDT
  FAIRMONT AT 455 PM EDT

THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 58 MPH. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY SHELTER STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.

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

$$

DRH/RAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	39 min
Apr 8, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Marion, Williamsburg	33 min
Apr 8, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	33 min
Apr 8, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	42 min
Apr 8, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.