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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 14, 2002Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2002, 3:17 PM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2002, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Columbus County, NC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 14, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KILM 141917
SVRILM
NCC047-142000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
316 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 312 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FROM       
  BOLTON TO NAKINA NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL SOUTHERN COLUMBUS COUNTY AT 320 PM
RURAL EASTERN COLUMBUS COUNTY AT 330 PM

HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS OR LARGER... AND WINDS GREATER THAN 58
MILES AN HOUR...ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FRIDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA.

.END

$$

SRP

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 Jun 14, 1:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
140 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

SPC HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A PORTION OF
SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA TIL 700 PM.

ACTIVITY THIS EVENING SHOULD BE IN ASSOCIATION WITH PRE-FRONTAL
TROUGH/DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARY. MSAS INDICATING STRONG
INSTABILITY AND SURFACE MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE RIGHT ALONG COAST
WITH A MUCH WEAKER MAXIMA DOWN AROUND CAE.

A STRONG SHORT WAVE IS LIFTING NORTHEAST WELL OFF THE COAST OF
GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA AND SUBSIDENCE/DRYING IN ITS WAKE MAY
INHIBIT WIDESPREAD CONVECTION THIS EVENING.

HOWEVER...GIVEN MAGNITUDE OF INSTABILITY AND WITH SURFACE BOUNDARY
TO HELP FOCUS CONVECTION AND SLIGHT COOLING/DRYING ALOFT WILL
MAINTAIN LIKELY POP. CONVECTION SHOULD DEVELOP VIRTUALLY OVERHEAD.
AVN HAS STRONGEST WINDS ALOFT...NEAR 40 KT. COULD BE ISOLATED WIND
DAMAGE BUT LARGE HAIL MAY BE MORE OF A THREAT WITH WET BULB ZEROS
NEAR 10000 FT.

COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE TONIGHT BETWEEN 06Z AND 10Z. SHORTWAVE RIDGE
FOLLOWS FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT.

LONGWAVE UPPER TROUGH PERSISTING ALONG EAST COAST INTO EARLY NEXT
WEEK. A WEAK SURFACE TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE AREA SUNDAY
SUNDAY NIGHT AND MOVE SLOWLY OFF THE COAST MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT.
WILL KEEP POPS OUT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT AS NOT LOOKING AS IF
MOISTURE DEEP ENOUGH TO WARRANT POPS WITH DEEP WEST OR WEST
SOUTHWEST FLOW.

UPPER FLOW BECOMES PROGRESSIVELY NORTHWEST MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT.
DECENT OMEGA AND INSTABILITY COUPLED WITH APPROACH OF H5 SHORTWAVE
TROUGH MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT WARRANTS A SMALL POP.

HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING ACROSS THE AREA FROM NORTHWEST TUESDAY AND
PASSING NORTH OF THE AREA AND OFFSHORE WEDNESDAY BUT STILL RIDGING
BACK TO THE COAST THURSDAY AND FRIDAY.

MARINE: SEAS 2 TO 4 FT AND BUOYS INDICATING SOUTHWEST WIND 15 KT.
GRADIENT WILL TIGHTEN UP THIS EVENING AHEAD OF BOUNDARY BUT NOT
EXPECTING WIND AND SEAS TO BREECH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY THRESHOLD.
WILL MENTION HIGHER WIND AND SEAS IN THUNDERSTORMS. WIND COMING
AROUND TO WEST AND THEN NORTHWEST ON SATURDAY AND THEN BACK TO
SOUTHWEST ON SUNDAY.

FCSTID = 27
PRELIMINARY NUMBERS

ILM  72 89 64 87 /  60 10  0 10
LBT  68 89 61 87 /  30 10  0 10
FLO  68 90 61 88 /  30 10  0 10
MYR  72 86 65 86 /  60 10  0 10

.ILM...
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

DIGIORGI

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 14, 2:50 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
250 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

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

0240 PM    15 E ELIZABETHTOWN        NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/14/02   BLADEN                         REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:02 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
302 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

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

0250 PM    BLADENBORO                NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/02   BLADEN                         TREE DOWNREPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

Local storm report, Jun 14, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
315 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002

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

0255 PM    KELLY                     NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/14/02   BLADEN                         TREES DOWN HIWAY
                                          53/210REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus	36 min
Jun 14, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	29 min
Jun 14, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.