Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Oct 1, 2012, 6:10 PM EDT for Bladen County, Columbus County, Robeson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 1, 2012, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bladen County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Robeson County, NC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 6:15 PM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 3 N Cerro Gordo, NC | REPORTS OF POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR PORTER SWAMP RD AND BUD STEPHENS RD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 566 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
648 WFUS52 KILM 012210 TORILM NCC017-047-155-012300- /O.NEW.KILM.TO.W.0008.121001T2210Z-121001T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 610 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN BLADEN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA NORTHWESTERN COLUMBUS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHEASTERN ROBESON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EVERGREEN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF WHITEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... BOARDMAN... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. && PLEASE REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC...TOLL FREE AT 800-697-3901...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3462 7895 3446 7865 3430 7898 3435 7905 TIME...MOT...LOC 2211Z 213DEG 13KT 3438 7896 $$ WEISS
4 follow-up statements
293 WWUS52 KILM 012221 SVSILM SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 621 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 NCC017-047-155-012300- /O.CON.KILM.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-121001T2300Z/ ROBESON NC-COLUMBUS NC-BLADEN NC- 621 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN BLADEN...NORTHWESTERN COLUMBUS AND SOUTHEASTERN ROBESON COUNTIES... AT 621 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BOARDMAN...OR 14 MILES WEST OF WHITEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO EVERGREEN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. && PLEASE REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC...TOLL FREE AT 800-697-3901...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3436 7896 3439 7901 3462 7895 3446 7865 TIME...MOT...LOC 2221Z 213DEG 13KT 3441 7894 $$ WEISS
948 WWUS52 KILM 012232 SVSILM SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 632 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 NCC017-047-155-012300- /O.CON.KILM.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-121001T2300Z/ ROBESON NC-COLUMBUS NC-BLADEN NC- 632 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN BLADEN...NORTHWESTERN COLUMBUS AND EAST CENTRAL ROBESON COUNTIES... AT 631 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BOARDMAN...OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. && PLEASE REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC...TOLL FREE AT 800-697-3901...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3440 7894 3443 7899 3461 7893 3446 7865 TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 213DEG 13KT 3444 7891 $$ WEISS
870 WWUS52 KILM 012247 SVSILM SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 647 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 NCC017-047-155-012300- /O.CON.KILM.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-121001T2300Z/ ROBESON NC-COLUMBUS NC-BLADEN NC- 647 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN BLADEN...EXTREME NORTHWESTERN COLUMBUS AND EAST CENTRAL ROBESON COUNTIES... AT 647 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN ROBESON COUNTY...OR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LUMBERTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. && PLEASE REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC...TOLL FREE AT 800-697-3901...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3443 7892 3446 7896 3461 7893 3449 7872 TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 213DEG 13KT 3449 7887 $$ WEISS
482 WWUS52 KILM 012257 SVSILM SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 657 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 NCC017-047-155-012307- /O.EXP.KILM.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-121001T2300Z/ ROBESON NC-COLUMBUS NC-BLADEN NC- 657 PM EDT MON OCT 1 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN BLADEN...EXTREME NORTHWESTERN COLUMBUS AND EAST CENTRAL ROBESON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 700 PM EDT... AT 657 PM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...DOWNED TREES OR DAMAGING WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC...TOLL FREE AT 800-697-3901...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3443 7892 3446 7896 3461 7893 3449 7872 TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 213DEG 13KT 3452 7885 $$ WEISS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus | 38 min |
| Oct 1, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 45 min |
| Oct 1, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus | 66 min |
| Oct 1, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Columbus | 53 min |
| Oct 1, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus | 62 min |
| Oct 1, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen, Pender | 44 min |
| Oct 1, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus | 61 min |
| Oct 1, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 62 min |
| Oct 1, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.