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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

October 11, 2002Georgetown County, South Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 11, 2002, 1:14 PM EDT for Georgetown County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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: Oct 11, 2002, 1:14 PM EDT (17:14 UTC)
Expired: Oct 11, 2002, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Georgetown County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 11, 10:20 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 2652 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 12.9

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The text

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

664 
WFUS52 KILM 111714
TORILM
SCC043-111745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
112 PM EDT FRI OCT 11 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  GEORGETOWN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 107 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF 
PRODUCING A TORNADO IN THE VICINITY OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING TO THE 
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   PLANTERSVILLE AT 130 PM
   BROOKGREEN GARDENS AT 140 PM
   MURRELLS INLET AT 145 PM

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA.

$$

HOEHLER

LAT...LON 3340 7940 3328 7924 3356 7902 3355 7907
          3369 7917

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 11, 1:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Georgetown	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.