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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 18, 2000Columbus County, Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 2000, 1:05 AM EDT for Columbus County, Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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 18, 2000, 1:05 AM EDT (05:05 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2000, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Columbus County, NC, Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:09 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 18, 1:05 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Lake Waccamaw, NC	Coop observer reported dime size hail.
Apr 18, 1:30 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Currie, NC	Trained spotter 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 550 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1239 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KILM 180507
SVRILM
NCC047-141-180600-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
105 AM EDT TUE APR 18 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT

* AT 105 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 6 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF BOLTON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF LELAND...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR
  DELCO AT 110 AM EDT
  RIEGLEWOOD AT 125 AM EDT
  ATKINSON AT 155 AM EDT

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN
HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST0
OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC.

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 Apr 17, 8:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 8:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
853 PM EDT MON APR 17 2000

SFC LOW HAS BEEN DROPPING SE INTO UPSTATE SC LAST SEVERAL HOURS AND
3-HR PRES CHANGE INDICATES A CONTINUED SE MOVEMENT. LI -4 OR SO
ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWA AND PVA SHOULD KEEP CONVECTION GOING FOR
SEVERAL MORE HOURS. INITIAL BAND OF SHRA/TSRA IS CURRENTLY PUSHING
THROUGH WILLIAMSBURG...FLORENCE AND DARLINGTON COUNITES. SOME
ADDITIONAL TSRA DEVELOPMENT IS OCCURRING CLOSER TO THE LOW CENTER
AND MAY BE ENHANCED BY FAVORABLE POSITION OF MID/UPR JET. MARGINAL
SVR THREAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MIDNIGHT AS WATCH 174 STATES.

ANY CHANGES TO FCST WOULD BE POP ADJUSTMENT AS NEEDED AT ISSUANCE
TIME BUT OVERALL EXPECT NO MAJOR CHANGES.

CWF: WILL ADJUST AS NEEDED BASED ON LATEST BUOY OBS BUT FCST
GENERALLY LOOKING GOOD.

.ILM...NONE.

MORGAN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 17, 10:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
1042 PM EDT MON APR 17 2000

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

1038 PM    NR LATTA                  SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/17/00   DILLON

DL

Local storm report, Apr 17, 11:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
1109 PM EDT MON APR 17 2000

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

1116 PM    8 W  KINGSTREE            SC   WIND DAMAGE
04/17/00   WILLIAMSBURG                   TREES DOWN

DL

Local storm report, Apr 17, 11:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
1146 PM EDT MON APR 17 2000

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

1140 PM    NR FAIRMONT               NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/17/00   ROBESON

DL

Local storm report, Apr 18, 12:38 AM EDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
1238 AM EDT TUE APR 18 2000

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

1230 AM    NR DUBLIN                 NC   WIND DAMAGE
04/18/00   BLADEN                         TREE DOWN ON POWER LINES

DL

Local storm report, Apr 18, 12:47 AM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
1247 AM EDT TUE APR 18 2000

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

1245 AM    15 S WHITEVILLE           NC   .88 INCH HAIL
04/18/00   COLUMBUS

DL

Local storm report, Apr 18, 12:51 AM EDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
1251 AM EDT TUE APR 18 2000

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

0150 AM    3 NE WILMINGTON           NC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/18/00   NEW HANOVER

DL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 11:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	44 min
Apr 17, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	70 min
Apr 18, 12:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick	40 min
Apr 18, 12:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	48 min
Apr 18, 1:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover	45 min
Apr 18, 1:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick	39 min
Apr 18, 1:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover, Pender	32 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.