Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 1990, 12:12 AM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 1990, 12:12 AM EDT (04:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 1990, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sampson 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 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KILM 020414
SVRILM
NCC163-020515-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC
1212 AM EDT MON APR 2 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
...SAMPSON
AT 1210 AM THIS MONDAY MORNING RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
APPROACHING WESTERN SAMPSON COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF STEDMAN MOVING
EAST TOWARD CLINTON AT 23 MPH.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 MPH TO OVER 100
MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY
DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES...SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE HAIL CAN
INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.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 1, 10:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
NCZ-003-020400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CAPE HATTERAS NC 1035 PM EDT SUN APR 1 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO NORTHEASTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1030 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE DETECTED OVER NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AND HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO HERTFORD AND NORTHWEST BERTIE COUNTIES BY 1100 PM. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHAMPTON COUNTY WERE IN A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM THE MOUTH OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INTO NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 9:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Robeson | 64 min |
| Apr 2, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Sampson | 60 min |
Nearby
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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.