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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Wilmington, NC

June 3, 1989Columbus County, North Carolina

NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1989, 3:17 PM EDT for Columbus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 3, 1989, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1989, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Columbus 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, Jun 3, 9:35 AM EDT, 5 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 10:34 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC
1115 AM EDT SAT JUN 03 1989

AT 1115 AM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
AND HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS COASTAL NORTH CAROLINA. THE
THUNDERSTORMS REACH FROM OREGON INLET AND SOUTH NAGS HEAD...ACROSS THE
PAMLICO SOUND TO INLAND DARE COUNTY AT STUMPY POINT...THEN SOUTH ALONG
THE WEST BANK OF THE SOUND TO NEAR ENGLEHARD IN INLAND HYDE COUNTY.

REPORTS FROM WEATHER SPOTTERS IN THE AREA INDICATE THAT THESE STORMS
WERE PRODUCING ALMOST CONTINUOUS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AND
BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN DURING AN ELECTRICAL STORM...SEEK SHELTER
AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...AND YOU FEEL
YOUR HAIR BEGINNING TO RISE...DROP IMMEDIATELY INTO A SQUATTING
POSITION...BALANCED ON THE BALLS OF YOUR FEET. MAKE YOURSELF AS SMALL
A TARGET AS POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED TREES.W..POWER POLES...
OR ANY OTHER TARGETS OF LIGHTNING.

MARINERS IN THE VICINITY OF OREGON INLET SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR
UNTIL THESE THUNDERSTORMS CLEAR THE AREA.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

BT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 9:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Robeson	61 min
Jun 3, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Sampson	64 min
Jun 3, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin	38 min
Jun 3, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Bladen	34 min
Jun 3, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin	26 min
Jun 3, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Craven	39 min
Jun 3, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Jones	60 min
Jun 3, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Duplin, Pender	36 min
Jun 3, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILM	Beaufort	68 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1989 Every 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.