1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Aug 13, 8:25 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC 925 PM EDT MON AUG 13 2001 SHORT WAVE TROUGH OVER THE EASTERN CAROLINAS SHOULD TAKE THE BULK OF THE CONVECTION OVER THE AREA OUT TO SEA BETWEEN NOW AND MIDNIGHT. HOWEVER...ANOTHER APPROACHING UPPER TROUGH COULD INITIATE MORE CONVECTION OVERNIGHT. WILL LOWER POPS TO THE CHANCE CATEGORY FOR THE OVERNIGHT. IF NEEDED...TEMPERATURES WILL BE ADJUSTED AS NECESSARY AFTER A LOOK AT THE 10 PM OBSERVATIONS BUT LITTLE CHANGE ANTICIPATED. CWF: SW WIND OF 15 TO 20 KT EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT WITH SEAS OF 4 TO 5 FT. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... FCSTID = 31 ILM 75 87 72 87/ 30 60 10 10 LBT 73 88 70 89/ 30 50 10 10 FLO 73 89 70 89/ 30 50 10 10 MYR 74 86 72 86/ 30 60 10 10 .ILM... NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RAN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, NC
709 PM EDT MON AUG 13 2001
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0706 PM ELIZABETHTOWN NC .88 INCH HAIL
08/13/01 BLADEN REPORTED BY PUBLIC
RANThe Wilmington radar (KLTX), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:13 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck an over 100 year old home on 430 Highmarket St. , severely damaging it.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, August 2001
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