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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 30, 1989Edgecombe County, Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 1989, 4:58 PM EST for Edgecombe County, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 1989, 4:58 PM EST (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 1989, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Wilson 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 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 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

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:02 PM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
200 PM EST THU MAR 30 1989

AT 200 PM A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS LOCATED IN EXTREME EASTERN
WAKE COUNTY BETWEEN ROLESVILLE ANDa WAKEFIELD. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH AND WILL BE IN FRANKLIN COUNTY BETWEEN
200 AND 300 PM.

LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

LGL

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 2:30 PM EST, 2 hours 28 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
230 PM EST THU MAR 30 1989

AT 230 PM A THUNDERSTORM LOCATED ON THE FRANKLIN AND NASH COUNTY LINE
JUST EAST OF BUNN WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORM WILL BE IN NASH COUNTY BETWEEN 230 PM AND 300 PM.

AS THE THUNDERSTORM WAS CROSSING BUNN AT ABOUT 215 PM...PEA SIZE HAIL
WAS OBSERVED. DUE TO THE RAPID MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORM...STRONG
AND GUSTY WINuDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

LGL

Local storm report, Mar 30, 2:46 PM EST, 2 hours 12 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
246 PM EST THU MAR 30 1989

TIME           EVENT
235 EST        NASH COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE
               HAIL NEAR CASTALIA.

LGL

Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:22 PM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
322 PM EST THU MAR 30 1989

TIME           EVENT
250 EST        NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION REPORTED
               HAIL THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER NEAR AVENTON
               IN NORTHERN NASH COUNTY.

LGL

Local storm report, Mar 30, 3:35 PM EST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
335 PM EST THU MAR 30 1989

TIME              EVENT
310-315 PM EST    HALIFAX COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIAL REPORTED
                  MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN DOWNTOWN HALIFAX. REPORT RELAYED
                  TO THE NWS BY WRAL-TV IN RALEIGH.

LGL

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 4:56 PM EST, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 3:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	39 min
Mar 30, 5:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Northampton	28 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.