Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1986, 4:27 PM EDT for Pasquotank County, Perquimans County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1986, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1986, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KHAT 242027 SVRHAT NCC143-139-242130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HATTERAS NC 427 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA...PERQUIMANS...PASQUOTANK AND NORTHERN AND ADJACENT WATERS OF ALBEMARLE SOUND ...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE COUNTIES JUST MENTIONED AT 419 PM, A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REPORTS FROM WEATHER SPOTTERS NEAR BELVIDERE IN NORTHERN PERQUIMANS COUNTY. THE PROJECTED PATH OF THIS STORM IS OVER OR NEAR ELIZABETH CITY AND WOODVILLE. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. MARINERS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR...OR PREPARE YOUR VESSEL FOR ROUGH WEATHER CONDITIONS. GUSTY WINDS AND HIGHER SEAS WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE ALBEMARLE SOUND WILL BE EFFECTED BY THESE STORMS WITHIN THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. DOC
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 12:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 1200 PM EDT TUW JUN 24 1986 AT NOON RADAR SHOWS AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS SOME OF WHICH ARE VERY HEAVY EXTENDING FROM THE EASTERN SHORE WESTWARD ACROSS THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INTO CENTRAL TIDEWATER NEAR URBANNA IN MIDDLESEX COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD AT 45 MPH AND COULD PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALONG WITH POSSIBLE HAIL AS THEY CONTINUE THEIR EASTWARD MOVEMENT. PERSONS ON LAND AND BOATERS SHOULD WATCH FOR THE APPROACH OF THREATENING WEATHER AND TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS FOR THEIR SAFETY WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE STORMS. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO DEVELOPING ALONG THE VIRGINIA AND NORTH CAROLINA BORDER IN SOUTHERN CHESAPEAKE AND VIRGINIA BEACH. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. THOMAS -
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 100 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 1986 A LARGE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM THE EASTERN SHORE OF VIRGINIAS NEAR WALLOPS ISLAND SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INTO CENTRAL TIDEWATER. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS HAVE MOVED OFF INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AT THIS TIME BUT THE STORMS YET TO PASS EASTWARD THROUGH THE AREA COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND THE ALWAYS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE VIRGINIA NORTH CAROLINA BORDER HAVE DISSIPATED OR MOVED OUT OVER THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. ADDITIONAL STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED+ AS NEEDED. CWT
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 230 PM EDT TUE JUN 24 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM 230 PM EDT UNTIL 8 PM EDT... THIS WATCH DOES INCLUDE ALL THE HAMPTON ROADS CITIES AND THE SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA COUNTIES. AT 230 PM EDT RADAR SHOWS VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND ALONG THE VIRGINIA NORTH CAROLINA BORDER. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. AT THIS TIME NO SEVER WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUE AROUND 330 PM EDT. CWT
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:31 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA
330PM PM EDT TUE JUN 24 1986
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT...
330 PM EDT RADAR SHOWS NO THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY OVER EXTREME
SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA. VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACTIVITY
CONTIUES OVER NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA WITH THE HEAVIEST
STORMS IN GATES COUNTY NORTH ALONG THE VIRGINIA NORTH CAROLINA
BORDER WITH SHOWERS EXTENDING INTO EXTREME SOUTHERN SUFFOLK VIRGINIA.
THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
THE STORMS WILL BE WATCHED CLOSELY AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 430 PM EDT.
CWT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gates | 69 min |
| Jun 24, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Pasquotank, Perquimans | 53 min |
| Jun 24, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Chowan | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.