Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1989, 4:21 PM EDT for Craven County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 3, 1989, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1989, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Craven 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:30 PM EDT | Hail 1.5 | Craven, 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
Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, Jun 3, 10:34 AM EDT, 5 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 3, 11:20 AM EDT, 5 hours 1 minute 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, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 28 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, 4:30 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.