Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 12, 1989Cumberland County, Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1989, 6:03 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 12, 1989, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 1989, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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, Jul 12, 1:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
110 PM EDT WED JUL 12 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 105 PM RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH HEAVY
RAIN IN NORTHWESTERN STOKES COUNTY NEAR THE VIRGINIA BORDER...NORTHEAST
WILKES COUNTY ALONG THE SURRY COUNTY BORDER AND ALLEGHENY COUNTY OF
THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

PERSONS IN STOKES...SURRY AND ALLEGHENY COUNTIES OF NORTHWESTERN
NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS
...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...POSSIBLE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
SOME FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. TAKE
SHELTER WHEN STORMS APPROACH.

GR
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 2:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
206 PM EDT WED JUL 12 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 200 PM RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN IN THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS...ALLEGHANY COUNTY OF THE NORTHERN
MOUNTAINS AND STOKES COUNTY OF THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT. THE STORMS
WITH THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS ARE IN EXTREME WESTERN SURRY COUNTY AND
IN THE DANBURY AREA OF STOKES COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

PERSONS IN STOKES...SURRY...WILKES...YADKIN AND ALLEGHENY COUNTIES OF
NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...POSSIBLE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
SOM5E FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE SINCE THE
STORMS ARE MOVING RELATIVELY SLOW. TAKE SHELTER WHEN STORMS APPROACH.

GR
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
336 PM EDT WED JUL 12 1989

...THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 330 PM RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST DOWNPOURS
ARE IN NORTHEAST FORSYTH COUNTY JUST WEST OF BELEW CREEK...SOUTHWEST
RANDOLPH COUNTY WEST OF THE UWHARRIE RIVER AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALAMANCE
COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS GENERALLY TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

PERSONS IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR GUSTY
WINDS...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...POSSIBLE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.
SOME FLOODING OF ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE SINCE THE
STORMS ARE MOVING RELATIVELY SLOW. TAKE SHELTER WHEN STORMS APPROACH.

GR
Local storm report, Jul 12, 5:41 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Local storm report, Jul 12, 5:49 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHOrange63 min
Jul 12, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham61 min
Jul 12, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHOrange55 min
Jul 12, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville, Vance55 min
Jul 12, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham59 min
Jul 12, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHOrange, Person57 min
Jul 12, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHVance, Warren61 min
Jul 12, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville50 min
Jul 12, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash42 min
Jul 12, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt52 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.