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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 17, 2006Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Apr 17, 2006, 5:04 PM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 17, 2006, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2006, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Columbus County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 17, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -484 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KILM 172105
TORILM
NCC047-172130-
/O.NEW.KILM.TO.W.0003.060417T2104Z-060417T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
504 PM EDT MON APR 17 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL COLUMBUS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 501 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
  CHADBOURN...OR 7 MILES WEST OF WHITEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   LAKE WACCAMAW BY 515 PM...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER 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.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

IF YOU OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER OR WEATHER RELATED DAMAGE...REPORT IT
TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY THE
REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON
NC.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT MONDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA.

LAT...LON 3420 7837 3418 7837 3415 7842 3416 7848
      3417 7853 3415 7855 3407 7856 3405 7859
      3430 7894 3442 7863

$$

BACON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	31 min
Apr 17, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	37 min
Apr 17, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	47 min
Apr 17, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus, Robeson	45 min
Apr 17, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Pender	40 min
Apr 17, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Brunswick, New Hanover	62 min
Apr 17, 5:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILM	Pender	23 min
Apr 17, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Columbus	17 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2006 Every tornado warning in 2006 Tornadoes in 2006

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.