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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 354

May 25, 200032 counties in North Carolina; 22 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT for 32 counties in North Carolina; 22 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 25, 2000, 3:45 PM EDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 54 counties

Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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.

Warnings issued inside it

33 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	44 min
May 25, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Hyde	44 min
May 25, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Dillon	26 min
May 25, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	45 min
May 25, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Beaufort, Pamlico	39 min
May 25, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	24 min
May 25, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Dare	47 min
May 25, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson	31 min
May 25, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Florence	30 min
May 25, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MHX	Carteret	48 min
May 25, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland, Sumter	48 min
May 25, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Marion	33 min
May 25, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	48 min
May 25, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen, Columbus	42 min
May 25, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, Columbus	67 min
May 25, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry	26 min
May 25, 6:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, York	40 min
May 25, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	51 min
May 25, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Georgetown, Horry	22 min
May 25, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	45 min
May 25, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	41 min
May 25, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	28 min
May 25, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	39 min
May 25, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	36 min
May 25, 8:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	51 min
May 25, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	39 min
May 25, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	51 min
May 25, 9:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Darlington, Florence	43 min
May 25, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	35 min
May 25, 9:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Marion	24 min
May 25, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	27 min
May 25, 9:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Horry, Marion	45 min
May 25, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Sumter	48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 2013 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 4:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Buncombe, Burke, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 10 more	6 hr
May 25, 10:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Edgecombe and 21 more	5 hr
May 25, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson and 3 more	6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.