Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1986, 2:00 PM EDT for Craven County, Pamlico County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1986, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1986, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Craven County, NC, Pamlico 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 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 KILM 021806 SVRILM NCC049-137-021900- BULLETIN IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 2 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 3 PM EDT... FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA...CRAVEN...PAMLICO AT 2 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST CRAVEN COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS CRAVEN COUNTY AND INTO PAMLICO COUNTY BY 230 PM EDT. THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY CAUSE DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL..FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LOCAL FLOODING. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER TO VYOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. STEVENSON
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, Aug 2, 1:44 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC 140 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE TIDEWATER VIRGINIA AREA. AT 130 THIS AFTERNOON CLUSTERS OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE BUILDING EAST OF I-95 FROM NORTH OF WILMINGTON TO THE VIRGINIA LINE NORTH OF TARBORO. STORMS POSSIBLY PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS, SMALL HAIL, AND VIVID DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE OBSERVED IN DUPLIN COUNTY, NORTH HAMPTON AND SOUTH OF VIRGINIA BEACH JUST INSIDE VIRGINIA. THE TREND WILL SEE CONTINUED DEVLOPMENT OF VERY STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS STORMS AS AFTERNOON HEATING CONTINUES. PERSONS PLANNINBG OUTDOOR ACTIVITY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE OUT AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. DEMAURICE
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:48 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 145 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 NUMEROUS VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COASTAL PLAINS OF SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. AT 130 THIS AFTERNOON VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS DOT THE LANDSCAPE FROM BEAUFORT COUNTY IN CENTRAL COASTAL NORTH CAROLINA TO NORTHERN COLUMBUS AND BRUNSWICK COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHERN COASTAL AREA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A SHORT LINE FROM SOUTHEAST OF KENANSVILLE IN DUPLIN COUNTY.. ACROSS WESTERN PENDER COUNTY TO THE LELAND AND BOLTON AREAS IN THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAINS. THE VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTH FROM MARYSVILLE IN JONES COUNTY TO NEAR BOGUE INLET. AN ISOLATED HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS ON THE WESTERN BORDER OF PAMLICO SOUND NEAR ORIENTAL AND SCATTERED ACROSS BEAUFORT COUNTY. . THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 8 MILES AN HOUR. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT AND INTENSITY OF THESE STORMS LOCALIZED STREET AND LOW LYING AREA FLOODING COULD OCCUR. FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. HEAVY DOWNPOURS REDUCING VISIBILITY AND SHIFTING GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO BE PRESENT. ONCE AGAIN.. THESE STORMS ARE VERY HEAVY. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIFONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS. OSWALD
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.