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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 28, 2000Pender County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2000, 3:58 PM EDT for Pender County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2000, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1183 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KILM 282000
SVRILM
NCC141-282100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
358 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 358 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ATKINSON...OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF BURGAW...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR
  WARDS CORNER AT 405 PM EDT
  PENDERLEA AT 415 PM EDT
  BURGAW AT 420 PM EDT

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

LAT...LON 3464 7818 3448 7819 3447 7763 3471 7776

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	43 min
Apr 28, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus	36 min
Apr 28, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	55 min
Apr 28, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	38 min
Apr 28, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick	46 min
Apr 28, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	27 min
Apr 28, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	New Hanover	46 min
Apr 28, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	38 min

Nearby

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.