Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1989, 8:11 PM EDT for Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1989, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1989, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lenoir County, NC
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Lenoir, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 841 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
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
Local storm report, Apr 27, 8:09 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Apr 27, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Pitt | 56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.