Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 1989, 5:12 PM EDT for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1989, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1989, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Granville 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Apr 25, 4:21 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 415 PM EDT TUE APR 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTOMS WATCH UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THIS EVENING. IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES RANDOLPH...ALAMANCE...ROCKINGHAM...CASWELL AND GUILFORD COUNTIES. THE WATCH AREA ALSO COVERS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. AT 400 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWS AN AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS NORTH OF GREENSBORO AND STRETCHING NORTH THROUGH ROCKINGHAM COUNTY AND ON INTO VIRGINA. THESE SHOWERS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 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 TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RJD
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 4:32 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 430 PM EDT TUE APR 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM... ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL VIRGINIA... AT 425 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN SOUTH-CENTRAL VIRGINIA. RADAR ALSO SHOWS THE STRONGEST INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORM TO BE ABOUT 20 MILES TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST OF DANVILLE VIRGINIA. THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE AND SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED AROUND 4 PM IN BEDFORD COUNTY VIRGINIA WHICH IS BETWEEN ROANOKE AND LYNCHBURG. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE NORTH CENTRAL COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINS WITHIN THE HOUR. BOATERS ON KERR LAKE AND OTHER LAKES IN THE REGION SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT THIS VERY STRONG ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY REMAIN OR INCREASE IN INTENSITY. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO...TV...AND COMMERCIAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WOODS
Special weather statement, Apr 25, 4:33 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 430 PM EDT TUE APR 25 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM... ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTH-CENTRAL VIRGINIA... AT 425 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN SOUTH-CENTRAL VIRGINIA. RADAR ALSO SHOWS THE STRONGEST INDIVIDUAL THUNDERSTORM TO BE ABOUT 20 MILES TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST OF DANVILLE VIRGINIA. THUNDERSTORM WIND DAMAGE AND SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED AROUND 4 PM IN BEDFORD COUNTY VIRGINIA WHICH IS BETWEEN ROANOKE AND LYNCHBURG. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 35 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE NORTH CENTRAL COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA WITHIN THE HOUR. BOATERS ON KERR LAKE AND OTHER LAKES IN THE REGION SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT THIS VERY STRONG ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY REMAIN OR INCREASE IN INTENSITY. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO...TV...AND COMMERCIAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WOODS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 46 min |
| Apr 25, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 31 min |
| Apr 25, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 29 min |
| Apr 25, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 32 min |
| Apr 25, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.