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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 28, 2000Brunswick County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2000, 3:59 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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 28, 2000, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2000, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Brunswick County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 19 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 28, 4:13 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Winnabow, NC
Apr 28, 4:25 PM EDT	Hail 1	Leland, NC

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 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KILM 281959
SVRILM
NCC019-282045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 359 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9
  MILES WEST OF LELAND TO 5 MILES NORTH OF SUPPLY TO 3 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SHALLOTTE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES
  WEST OF LELAND TO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHALLOTTE TO 3 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF SHALLOTTE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
  SUPPLY AT 415 PM EDT
  BOLIVIA AT 420 PM EDT
  BOILING SPRING LAKES AT 440 PM EDT

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU
ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...SEEK; SHELTER INDOORS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
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 28, 1:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 1:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
150 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000

CONDITIONS SET UP FOR GOOD SHOT AT TRW THROUGH THIS EVE. UPR LO
DRIFTING ACROSS NWRN SC/SWRN NC TO PUSH E OVER THE CWFA LATER
INCREASING LIFT. LFQ OF H3 JET IN FAVORABLE POSITION TO FURTHER
ENHANCE CONVERGENCE. APPROACHING COLD POOL ALOFT & SLIGHT WARMING
FROM NEARBY BINOVC WILL ALLOW FURTHER DESTABILIZATION OF ALREADY
SLIGHTLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS (MAPS SOUNDINGS SHOW -2/-3 LI). CAPES
AT OR APPROACHING 1000J/KG. GOOD LO-LVL WIND FIELDS (KLTX VWP SHOWS
40KT AT 5K) W/ MAINLY UNIDIRECTIONAL FLOW. WET BULB ZEROES UNDER
9K FT. LARGE HAIL LOOKS TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. KLTX 88D SHOWS SCT
RW/TRW ALREADY POPPING UP OVER MUCH OF AREA. WILL CARRY HI CHC/LIKELY
POPS IN AN EVE PERIOD W/ A DECREASING OVRNGT TREND.

UPR FLOW ON THE PROGRESSIVE SIDE THIS PERIOD AS UPR RIDGE SLIDES E
IN RESPONSE TO DEEPENING TROF OUT W. TROF LAGS BEHIND PASSING UPR
LO...NOT MOVING OFF CST TIL SAT NGT. NEXT DECENT VORT PASSES S OF
AREA LATE TNGT W/ CHANNELED VORT MOVING OVRHD LATE SAT. COLDEST AIR
ALOFT (-22 H5 TEMP) & WEAK OMEGA W/ VORT WILL HELP KICK OFF A FEW
RW/TRW TMRW & WILL CARRY A SMALL POP. MOISTURE DECREASES SAT NGT/SUN
AS HI PRES BEGINS TO BUILD IN IN EARNEST. ALL TEMP GUIDANCE IN GOOD
AGREEMENT & WILL FOLLOW.

EFP: SFC HI PRES MOVES OUT ON MON THEN CDFNT PASSES TUE. WILL
INCLUDE POPS THEN. HI PRES MOVES BACK IN WED.

CWF: OCCASIONAL COASTAL REPORTS SHOWING WINDS AOA 20KT. MOST PLACES
15-20KT. NOT A GREAT DEAL OF PRES GRAD AROUND THE SFC LO OR
ADJOINING CDFNT. NOT MUCH CAA W/ THIS SYSTEM EITHER. GUIDANCE KEEPS
WINDS BELOW CRITERIA THRU THE PERIOD. WINDS SHIFT TO NW AFT FROPA
TNGT THEN FLOP BETWEEN N AND NW STARTING TMRW AFTN W/ HI PRES
APPROACHING.

PRELIMINARY CCF...
ILM BU 051/069 050/076 052 630
FLO BU 052/072 048/080 049 520
MYR BU 053/069 052/075 052 620

.ILM...NONE.

LGE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 2:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
209 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000

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

0200 PM    BURGAW                    NC   WIND DAMAGE
04/28/00   PENDER                         EM REPORTED TREES DOWNED
                                          AND ROOF DAMAGE ON NORTH
                                          SIDE OF TOWN

TM

Local storm report, Apr 28, 2:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
229 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000

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

0227 PM    7S FAIRMONT               NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/28/00   ROBESON                       DL

Local storm report, Apr 28, 3:03 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
303 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000

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

0255 PM    S TARHEEL                 NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/28/00   BLADEN                         NICKEL AND QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL REPORTED BY FIREMAN

DL

Local storm report, Apr 28, 3:07 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
307 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000

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

0255 PM    W EVERGREEN               NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
04/28/00   COLUMBUS                       TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL

DL

Local storm report, Apr 28, 3:19 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
319 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....0

0317 PM    NR BLADENBORO             NC   .88 INCH HAIL
04/28/00   BLADEN                         NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY EMERGENCY MANAGER

DL

Local storm report, Apr 28, 3:42 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
342 PM EDT FRI APR 28 2000

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

0330 PM    BUG HILL                  NC   .75 INCH HAIL
04/28/00   COLUMBUS                       NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY THE NAKINA RESCUE SQUAD

DL

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, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.