Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 2001, 10:08 PM EDT for Bladen County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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 15, 2001, 10:08 PM EDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2001, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bladen County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:27 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | East Arcadia, NC | Thunderstorm wind caused downed trees in the East Arcadia - Kelly area, and there were power outages reported in the Carvers Creek area. |
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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1030 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KILM 160208 TORILM NCC017-160245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 1008 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BLADEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT * AT 959 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER CLARKTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELIZABETHTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... COUNCIL AT 1020 PM EDT KELLY AT 1030 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC. .END $$ DCH/TM/DL/PJN LAT...LON 3466 7867 3449 7875 3437 7834 3450 7823
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 16, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick | 40 min |
| Jun 16, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 51 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.