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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Wilmington, NC

August 18, 2000Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2000, 6:51 PM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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: Aug 18, 2000, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Columbus County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 18, 7:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Whiteville, NC	Trees down across a road in Whiteville.

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
Aug 18, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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: 230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

311 
WUUS52 KILM 182251
SVRILM
NCC047-182345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
651 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 645 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER
  EVERGREEN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF WHITEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   CHADBOURN AT 700 PM EDT
   TABOR CITY AT 705 PM EDT
   IRON HILL AT 715 PM EDT
   WHITEVILLE AT 720 PM EDT
   NAKINA AT 735 PM EDT
   OLD DOCK AT 740 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.

$$
DRH/CRM
.END

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 Aug 18, 2:27 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:27 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
227 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000

SFC FRONT BACK IN ERN TN WITH TROUGH AHEAD IN WRN NC. QUITE AN
UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN ILM CWA. DEWPOINTS IN THE MID AND UPPER 70S AND
VERGING ON 80 AT ILM. MAIN DYNAMICS AND ENERGY PROGGED TO BE OVER
CWA AROUND AND AFTER SUNSET. BUT...ANY ACTIVITY DEVELOPING INLAND
AND MOVING INTO AREA WILL BE FUELED IN THE EXISTING MOIST...UNSTABLE
AIRMASS.

AM PLANNING LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS TONIGHT. FRONT PROGGED TO MOVE
OFFSHORE NEAR 12Z SAT BUT LOW PROGGED TO DEVELOP ALONG TRAILING
FRONT IN NRN GA OVERNIGHT. WITH LOW PERSISTING OVER GA AND GREAT
LAKES HIGH BEGINNING TO BUILD SOUTH OVER REGION LATER SAT...A NE
FLOW TO SET UP ALONG THE COAST. PLENTY OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE
REMAINING AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE AND CAN EXPECT SOME CLOUD COVER TO
HANG AROUND REST OF WEEKEND.

CWF...SW WINDS 20 KT TONIGHT WL BECOME W TOWARDS MORN AS COLD FRONT
SLIDES OVER COASTAL WATERS. WINDS QUICKLY BECOME N/NE SAT...THEN E
SAT NGT. AVN IS ODD MODEL OUT IN TERMS OF WIND DIR/SPEED...SO WL GO
MORE WITH ETA/NGM SOLN. NO FLAGS XPCTD.

PRELIM CCF:
ILM BB 072/087 068/085 068 30610
FLO BB 072/089 067/086 067 30700
MYR BB 073/086 069/084 068 30610

.ILM...NONE.

PJN/TRA

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 18, 5:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
517 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000

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

0511 PM    MCCOLL                    SC   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/18/00   MARLBORO                       REPORTED BY MARLBORO
                                          911

DRH

Local storm report, Aug 18, 6:12 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
612 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000

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

0605 PM    6 NE CLIO                 SC   .75 INCH HAIL
08/18/00   MARLBORO                       TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          HAIL REPORTED ON HIGHWAY 83
                                          ON MARLBORO SC AND ROBESON
                                          NC COUNTY LINE

0605 PM    LUMBER BRIDGE             NC   .75 INCH HAIL
08/18/00   ROBESON

DRH

Local storm report, Aug 18, 6:32 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
632 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000

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

0630 PM    FAIRMONT                  NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/18/00   ROBESON                        TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          LARGE TREE BLOWN DOWN

DRH

Local storm report, Aug 18, 6:39 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
639 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 2000

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

0630 PM    BLENHEIM                  SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/18/00   MARLBORO                      TM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	66 min
Aug 18, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	30 min
Aug 18, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	62 min
Aug 18, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	61 min
Aug 18, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	61 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.