1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 20, 1:20 PM EST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 220 PM EDT TUE AUG 20 2002 ZFP: CLOUD COVER HAS SLOWED THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON WITH SOME CLEARING TO THE WEST. LATEST RADAR SCAN SHOWING A CELL DEVELOPING JUST NORTH OF THE CWA IN DUPLIN AND SAMPSON COUNTIES. MODELS CONTINUE TO PUSH FRONTAL BOUNDARY SOUTHWARD WITH THE AVN BEING THE MOST AGGRESSIVE TO THE SOUTH. AS UPPER LEVEL HIGH OVER THE SOUTHEAST CONTINUES OVER THE REGION A COUPLE OF WEAK SHORTWAVES ROTATE TO THE WEST SOUTHWEST JUST SOUTH OF THE AREA. THERE IS LITTLE LIFT UNTIL LATER IN THE WEEK WITH THE APPROACHING FRONT BY THE WEEKEND. WILL CONTINUE WITH A GENEROUS 30 POP THROUGH MIDNIGHT AS CLOUD COVER CONTINUES TO ERODE. WILL NOT STRAY TO FAR FROM GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES AND WILL FAVOR THE MEAN ENSEMBLE MOS GUIDANCE FOR TEMPERATURES IN THE EXTENDED. CWF: BENIGN PATTERN WILL CONTINUE WITH WINDS 15 KT OR LESS OVER THE NEXT 5 DAYS. BOTH WED AND SAT BECOME A LITTLE TRICKY WITH WEAK FRONTS TRYING TO SAG INTO AREA. THINK I CAN HANG ON TO SW INTO WED MORNING AND BACK AROUND TO E/SE BY WED NIGHT WITH THE FIRST FRONT. SAT A LITTLE TOUGHER TO TIME SO WILL GO VARIABLE FOR NOW. SEAS 2-3 FT THRU THE PERIOD. FCSTID = 07 KILM 73 88 71 89 / 30 10 10 10 KLBT 71 92 70 92 / 30 10 10 10 KFLO 72 92 70 92 / 30 10 10 10 KMYR 74 88 72 88 / 30 10 10 10 .ILM... NC...NONE. SC...NONE. PUBLIC: HAWKINS MARINE: RAS
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:57 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Emergency manager reported dime to nickel size hail. Trees were reported down at the intersection of Hwy 210 and 701.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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