Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1986, 7:22 PM EDT for Person County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1986, 7:22 PM EDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1986, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Person County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Person, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 874 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 022322 SVRRDU NCC145-030030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 722 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA...PERSON AT 7 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERIFFIS OFFICE IN ROXBORO NORTH CAROLINA. TREES W[ERE DOWN AND ROOFS WERE DAMAGED. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. JFB
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, 5:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 540 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 AT 530 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER MOORE, LEE AND SOUTHERN CHATHAM COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS JUST NORTH OF SANFORD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF THESE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER THEY SHOULD MOVE INTO SOUTHERN WAKE COUNTY BY 6 PM THIS EVENING. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF ROCKY MOUN T AND SHOULD CROSS NORTHERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY BY 630 PM. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION, OR TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DMD INI
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 6:52 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 650 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 1986 AT 635 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER HARNETT COUNTY. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST WEST OF DUNN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE OVER THE CITIES OF DUNN AND BENSON BY 715 PM THIS EVENING. ELSEWHERE IN THE STATE A SCATTERED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NORTH OF CHARLOTTE...TO NEAR GREENSBORO...TO ROXBORO. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. IF THEY INTENSIFY LATER THIS EVENING THEY COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDAS AND HAIL. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION, OR TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DMD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 58 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.