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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Wilmington, NC

May 3, 2003Brunswick County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2003, 10:16 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 74 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 2003, 10:16 PM EDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 2003, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
74 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Brunswick County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2003-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2003-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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

130 
WUUS52 KILM 040216
SVRILM
NCC019-040330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1016 PM EDT SAT MAY 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  BRUNSWICK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT

* AT 1014 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER SANDY
  CREEK...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LELAND...MOVING EAST AT 25   
  MPH. TWO ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN COLUMBUS COUNTY ARE    
  MOVING TOWARD THE AREA...AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE NORTHERN HALF  
  OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY AFTER 1100 PM. LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
  QUARTERS IS THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   WINNABOW AT 1030 PM
   LELAND AT 1035 PM
   NAVASSA AT 1040 PM

MORE DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP AND AFFECT OTHER COMMUNITIES
IN THE WARNED AREA.

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.

LAT...LON 3435 7816 3427 7820 3417 7837 3399 7797
          3415 7797 3432 7802

TRA

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMBladen72 min
May 3, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson37 min
May 3, 8:20 PM EDTTornado WarningILMRobeson25 min
May 3, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus80 min
May 3, 8:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson49 min
May 3, 9:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMRobeson74 min
May 3, 9:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus77 min
May 3, 11:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMColumbus92 min
May 3, 11:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMNew Hanover42 min
May 4, 12:47 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningILM58 min
May 4, 12:47 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningILM58 min
May 4, 1:44 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningILM61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.