Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1986, 3:40 PM EST for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 1986, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1986, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lenoir 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 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 KRDU 192040 SVRRDU NCC107-192115- BULLETIN-IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 340 PM EST WED MAR 19 1986 A..THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...LENOIR COUNTY. B..AT 330 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN BY RADAR EAST OF FAISON AND WAS MOVING TOWARD LENOIR COUNTY. DAMAGING WINDS WERE REPORTED IN NORTHERN DUPLIN COUNTY WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. < 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. 337PM/LBC
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, Mar 19, 9:49 AM EST, 5 hours 51 minutes before
^RDUSPSGSO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 946 AM EST WED MAR 19 1986 ...MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS MORNING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMANINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR DAVIDSON.. ROWAN.. IREDELL.. RANDOLPH.. FORSYTH.. AND GUILFORD COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. AT 935 AM A LINE OF MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM STOKES AND SURRY COUNTIES SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH YADKIN.. WILKES.. IREDELL.. AND ALEXANDER COUNTIES AND THEN CONTINUED SOUTHWESTWARD TOWARD THE CHARLOTTE AREA. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF THE HICKORY AREA. MOVEMENT OF THIS PRECIPITATION WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT APPROXIMATELY 45 MPH. HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ESPECIALLY IN THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THIS LINE OF ACTIVITY. FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED IF CONDITIONS WARRANT. RJK
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 10:42 AM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 1040 AM EST WED MAR 19 1986 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS AND SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH DOES HOWEVER REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT.. ALL OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT AND FOR CATAWBA COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND FOR RICHMOND COUNTY IN THE SANDHILLS. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE. LISTEN TO COMMERCIAL RADIO, TV, OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LBC
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 11:51 AM EST, 3 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 1148 AM EST WED MAR 19 1986 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR CATAWBA COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND THE COUNTIES IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT. ALSO THE WATCH HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED FOR CLEVELAND.. LINCOLN.. GASTON.. AND MECKLENBURG COUNTIES IF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH DOES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING SOUTHERN PIEDMONT COUNTIES... CABARRUS.. STANLY.. MONTGOMERY.. UNION AND ANSON. ALSO THE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR RICHMOND COUNTY IN THE SANDHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA. LISTEN TO COMMERCIAL RADIO, TV, OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LBC
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 12:17 PM EST, 3 hours 23 minutes before
^RDUSPSGSO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 1215 PM EST WED MAR 19 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR DAVIDSON.. ROWAN.. IREDELL.. RANDOLPH.. FORSYTH.. AND GUILFORD COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTROM WATCH PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 1210 PM THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT CAME THROUGH THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT EARLIER THIS MORNING WAS LOCATED TO THE EAST OF THE GREENSBORO AREA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DID EXTEND FROM PARTS SOUTHEASTERN CASWELL COUNTY SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH ALAMANCE.. SOUTHEASTERN GUILFORD AND INTO RANDOLPH COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT APPROXIMATELY 45 TO 50 MPH. THESE AREAS CONSISTED OF MOSTLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAINSHOWER ACTIVITY. NO FURHTER STATEMENTS ARE ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. RJK
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 2:29 PM EST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 225 PM EST WED MAR 19 1986 ..SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 50 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR MOST OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... THIS WATCH REPLACES SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 49 THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. AT 215 PM THERE WAS A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MOST OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA EXTENDED IN A LINE FROM NEAR LAURINBURG TO FAYETTEVILLE TO NEAR ROCKY MOUNT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO SWEEP ACROSS MOST OF THE COASTAL PLAINS AND COASTAL AREA THIS AFTERNOON. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS OR TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 3:24 PM EST, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 325 PM EST WED MAR 19 1986 ..SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 50 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM FOR MOST OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS... AT 310 PM THERE WAS A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MOST OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE FROM JUST EAST OF FAYETTEVILLE IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY TO NEAR KINSTON IN LENOIR COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND SHOULD CONTINUE TO PUSH TO THE COASTAL AREAS THIS AFTERNOON. AS OF 315 PM THIS AFTERNOON NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED IN NORTH CAROLINA WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BUT RAPID STRENGTHENING OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. AND LARGE HAIL IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. DMD
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.