Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2001, 5:24 PM EDT for Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 16, 2001, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Robeson County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Lumberton, NC | Spotter reported extensive wind damage to a home. |
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
614 WUUS52 KILM 162125 SVRILM NCC155-162215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 524 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROBESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 523 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER BARKER TEN MILE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF LUMBERTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ST. PAULS AT 535 PM EDT PARKTON AT 540 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. .END $$ PJN LAT...LON 3474 7915 3462 7900 3472 7884 3493 7903
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 9:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILM | Bladen, Robeson | 106 min |
| Jun 15, 10:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 37 min |
| Jun 16, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 40 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.