Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1986, 4:56 PM EDT for Pasquotank County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1986, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1986, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pasquotank 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, 8.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 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 282056 TORHAT NCC139-282200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HATTERAS NC 456 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA...PASQUOTANK AT TIME A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELIZABETH CITY...ALONG HIGHWAY 17... MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE PROJECTED PATH OF THIS STORM IS OVER OR NEAR ELIZABETY CITY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...IF YOU ARE NEAR ITS PATH GET OUT OF YOUR CAR OR MOBILE HOME AND FIND SHELTER IN A SUBSTANTIAL STRUCTURE CLOSE TO YOU. GO TO A SMALL NINTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. A BASEMENT IS BEST. COVER YOUR HEAD. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. FT
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 28, 1:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RICHMOND VA 135 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986 THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO NELSON COUNTY IN VIRGINIA AT 132 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF AUGUSTA COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO NELSON COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 15 TO 20 MINUTES. THE STORM CONTAINS VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. SMALL HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY TO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED WILLS
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 210 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS BEGIN TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN VIRGINIA... AT 2 PM A LINE OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA. THE LINE EXTENDS FROM WESTERN PORTSMOUTH NEAR THE JAMES RIVER WEST SOUTHWEST TO EASTERN GREENSVILLE COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACCOMPANIED BY LOCALLY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THEY ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND SHOULD BE MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHAMPTON ROADS CITIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA NEAR WASHINGTON AND MAY MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. RESIDENTS OF EASTERN VIRGINIA AND IN PARTICULAR MARINE INTERESTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AS THEY COULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAINS..AND SHARP LIGHTNING. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE 9ISSUED BY 3 PM. TAR
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 300 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN VIRGINIA... AT 2.50 PM THERE WERE TWO LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING EASTERN VIRGINIA. ONE LINE EXTENDS FROM SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF PORTSMOUTH WEST SOUTHWEST ACROSS SUFFOLK AND INTO NORTH CAROLINA JUST SOUTH OF FRANKLIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IN THIS LINE WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF FRANKLIN AND INTO HERTFORD COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA. ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDS FROM MARYLAND SOUTHWEST INTO THE NORTHERN NECK COUNTIES OF VIRGINIA NEAR COLONIAL BEACH. BOTH AREAS OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH AND LOCALLY STRONG WINDS..HAIL..AND HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR NEAR THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. MARINE INTERESTS ON THE WATERS ADJACENT TO THE NORTHEN NECK SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN NECK. MARINE INTERESTS IN THE EXTREME LOWE6R BAY AND COASTAL WATERS ADJACENT TO THE HAMPTON ROADS CITIES SHOULD ALSO BE ALERT TO THE MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO THOSE WATERS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 4 PM. RITTER
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:58 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK VA 400 PM EDT SAT JUN 28 1986 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST VIRGINIA AND THE NORTHERN CHESAPEAKE BAY OF VIRGINIA... AT 350 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA BEACH SOUTHWEST ACROSS CHESAPEAKE AND INTO NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHERN CHESAPEAKE AND WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN VIRGINIA BEACH AND INTO THE COASTAL WATERS DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS..HAIL..VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SHARP LIGHTNING. ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERTORMS EXTENDED FROM EASTERN MARYLAND ACROSS THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND INTO MATHEWS COUNTY ON THE WESTERN SHORE OF THE BAY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS LINE WERE OVER MATHEWS COUNTY AND OVER THE BAY EAST OF ACCOMACK COUNTY. ALL THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. SPECIAL MARINE WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT UNTIL 4.30 PM FOR THE COASTAL WATERS OF VIRGINIA BEACH SOUTH OF RUDEE INLET AND FOR BACK BAY AND FOR THE VIRGINIA WATERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY NORTH OF NEW POINT COMFORT AND COASTAL WATERS FROM CHINCOTEAGUE TO COBB ISLAND UNTIL 4.30 PM. ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 5 PM. RITTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | AKQ | Chowan | 68 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.