Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1989, 5:57 PM EDT for Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1989, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1989, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Brunswick 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KILM 252158
TORILM
NCC019-252300-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
557 PM EDT MON SEP 25 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
...WESTERN BRUNSWICK
AT 550 PM EDT BRUNSWICK COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT REPORTED WATERSPOUTS IN
THE
WATERWAY MOVING NORTHWEST ACROSS LAND WEST OF OCEAN ISLE.
TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW
CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER NOW...DO NOT TRY TO WAIT ON THE
STORM AND DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN IT.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, Sep 25, 12:44 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 1243 PM EDT MON SEP 25 1989 URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE WITH HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THESE CONDITIONS. AT 1230 THIS AFTERNOON RAIN COVERED MOST OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJOINING ATLANTIC WATERS. THE RAIN AREA EXTENDED TO OVER 150 MILES TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF WILMINGTON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OFFSHORE IN THE RAIN AREA EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF WILMINGTON TO NEAR GEORGETOWN SOUTH CAROLINA. THE RAIN ELEMENTS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. DS
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 2:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 143 PM EDT MON SEP 25 1989 URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE WITH HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THESE CONDITIONS. AT 230 THIS AFTERNOON RAIN COVERED MOST OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... EXTREME NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJOINING ATLANTIC WATERS. THE RAIN AREA EXTENDED TO OVER 150 MILES TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF WILMINGTON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE RAIN AREA EXTENDED FROM BRUNSWICK COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA TO MURELLS INLET AND SOUTHEAST TO FRYRING PAN TuOWER. THE RAIN ELEMENTS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. DS
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 3:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC 315 PM EDT MON SEP 25 1989 HEAVY RAINS WITH POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS EMBEDDED IN A BROAD AREA OF PRECIPITATION MOVES INTO THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS CONDITION AND TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS. THE POSSIBILITY OF URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING WILL INCREASES AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. ROADS MAY BE COVERED WITH AREAS OF SHALLOW WATER WHICH COULD BE DANGEROUS TO DRIVERS THAT APPROACH THERES AREAS AT A RAPID SPEED. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AS CONDITIONS WARRENT. FMC
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 3:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 342 PM EDT MON SEP 25 1989 URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE WITH HEAVY RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS AGAINST THESE CONDITIONS. AT 330 THIS AFTERNOON RAIN COVERED MOST OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... EXTREME NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE ADJOINING ATLANTIC WATERS. THE RAIN AREA EXTENDED TO OVER 150 MILES TO THE EAST AND SOUTH OF WILMINGTON. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE RAIN AREA EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES EAST OF WILMINGTON TO MURELLS INLET SOUTH CAROLINA AND EAST TO NEAR FRYING PAN TOWER. THE RAIN ELEMENTS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. DS
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 4:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 435 PM EDT MON SEP 25 1989 URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE IN THE COASTAL SECTIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING. AT THE NEW HANOVER COUNTY AIRPORT ABOUT THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN TODAY...AND THERE MAY BE SOME SURRONDING AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED EVEN MORE. LOW AREA AND STEET FLOODING ARE LIKELY. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION AND BE ALERT FOR FLOOD DANGERS. AT 430 THE RADAR SHOWED RAIN COVERING MOST OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND A LARGE AREA OVER THE OCEAN TO OVER 125 MILES OFFSHORE. THERE WERE SEVERAL VERY HEAVY SHOWERS OR POSSIBLY THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COASTAL WATERS WHICH WILL LIKELY MOVE ONSHORE IN BRUNSWICK AND ONSLOW COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. RK
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 5:45 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 535 PM EDT MON SEP 25 1989 URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE IN THE COASTAL SECTIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING. AT THE NEW HANOVER COUNTY AIRPORT ABOUT THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN TODAY...AND THERE MAY BE SOME SURRONDING AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED EVEN MORE. LOW AREA AND STEET FLOODING ARE LIKELY. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION AND BE ALERT FOR FLOOD DANGERS. AT 530 PM THE RADAR WAS SHOWING A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WEST PART OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY AROUND SHALLOTTE. THEY WERE MOVING NORTH ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND THEY WILL BE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. ELSWHERE...RAIN COVERED ALMOST ALL OF THE NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL AREAS AND THE COASTAL PLAINS EAST OF RALEIGH AND GOLDSBORO. FARTHER WEST THE RAIN WAS SCATTERED IN THE AREA AROUND FAYETTEVILLE AND ONLY A FEW PATCHES REMAINED IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THwE RAIN AREA EXTENDED OFFSHORE TO WELL OVER 100 MILES AND THERE WERE HEAVY SHOWERS IN THE COASTAL WATERS. THE SHOWERS IN THE COASTAL WATERS WILL BE MOVING ONSHORE IN THE AREA BETWEEN HOLLYRIDGE AND BEAUFORT DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. RK
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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.