Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1989, 9:07 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1989, 9:07 PM EDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1989, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sampson 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KRDU 130112
TORRDU
NCC163-130200-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
907 PM EDT MON JUN 12 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
...NORTHERN SAMPSON
AT 905 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO
JUST SOUTHEAST OF FAYETTEVILLE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
TAKE COVER NOW.
PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO A BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF
BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCH.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 12, 8:11 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 810 PM EDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... A THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING INTO ROBESON COUNTY. THE STORM IS NEAR ROWLAND AND IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN ROBESON COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... STRONG GUSTY WIND S AND POSSIBLY HAIL. DS
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 8:37 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 835 PM EDT MON JUN 12 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 11 PM... AT 825 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE CENTERED IN WESTERN ROBESON COUNTY..WESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY.. EASTERN HARNETT COUNTY..AND WESTERN NASH COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN HARNETT COUNTY. PERSONS IN ROBESON COUNTY CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS..FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND LOCALIZED FLOODING UNTIL ABOUT 9 PM. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE ACROSS BLADEN COUNTY LATER THIS EVENING. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.R
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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.