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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Wilmington, NC

April 25, 1989Duplin County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1989, 8:26 PM EDT for Duplin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 25, 1989, 8:26 PM EDT (00:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 25, 1989, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Duplin 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 219 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1989-04-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 497 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1989-04-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
497 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
218 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILM 260027
SVRILM
NCC061-260100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
826 PM EDT TUE APR 25 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
          ...SOUTHERN DUPLIN
 
AT 825 PM EST THE WILMINGTON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THE CENTRAL PART OF DUPLIN COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING SOUTH
AT 50 MPH TOWARD THE WALLACE AREA. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.
 
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUEN#T LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

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

Local storm report, Apr 25, 8:16 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
815 PM EST TUE APR 26 1989

2008 EST DUPLIN COUNTY ...TREES DOWN NORTH PART OF COUNTY...SOME ROADS
                          BLOCKED.

                        ...GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL EAST OF FAISON

                        ...POWER AND TELEPHONES OUT IN WARSAW AREA.

                        ...POWER OUT IN KENANSVILLE.

RK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 25, 11:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMSampson118 min
Apr 25, 11:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMOnslow62 min
Apr 26, 1:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMDuplin60 min
Apr 26, 1:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILMOnslow, Pender57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.