Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 1989, 2:06 PM EDT for Onslow County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 6, 1989, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 1989, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Onslow 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 6, 12:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 1240 PM EDT THU APR 06 1989 AT 1230 THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED IN SHORT LINES FROM SAMPSON COUNTY THROUGH BLADEN COUNTY AND COLUMBUS COUNTY INTO EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH OF FLORENCE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE CLUSTERED AROUND THE MYRTLE BEACH AND CRESCENT BEACH AREA IN EASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS WERE CHANGING RAPIDLY AS THEY MOVED EAST ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR. SOME SMALL HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS IN BLADEN AND ROBESON COUNTIES OF INTERIOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AROUND NOON TODAY. TABOR CITY ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA BORDER OF COLUMBUS COUNTY ALSO REPORTED SMALL HAIL AROUND 1230 THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR SIMILAR HAZARDS THIS AFTERNOON UNTIL THE STORMS PASS EAST BEYOND THE FORECAST AREA INTO THE ATLANTIC. NO HIGH WINDS OR DANGEROUS LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS SO FAR TODAY. TENDER CROPS AND ORNAMENTALS MAYBE BE VULNERABLE TO SMALL HAIL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 1:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | New Hanover, Pender | 33 min |
| Apr 6, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Carteret | 66 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.