Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1990, 6:11 PM EDT for Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 1990, 6:11 PM EDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1990, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nash 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 042211 SVRRDU NCC127-042315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 611 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...NASH COUNTY AT 608 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDEERSTORM IN SOUTHERN NASH COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPHv. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. 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.
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, May 4, 3:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
NCZ006-040330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 320 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN BEGINNING TO DEVELOPE OVER THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 300 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN CENTRAL IREDELL COUNTY JUST NORTH OF STATESVILLE. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS STRETCHES FROM ROCKINGHAM SOUTHWEST THROUGH STOKES...SURRY YADKIN...IREDELL...AND ALEXANDER THIS LINE IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...THEN BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMSX PASS. RJD
Special weather statement, May 4, 4:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
NCZ006-040330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 415 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN BECOMING MORE NUMBEROUS OVER THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 400 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN BECOMING MORE NUMBEROUS IN FORSYTH...DAVIE...IREDELL AND ROWAN COUNTIES THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN CENTRAL IREDELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT IS TO THE EAST 30 MPH. ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON OF HAIL...THERE COULD VERY WELL BE SOME SMALL HAIL IN THESE STORMS IN IREDELL COUNTY. ALSO JUST NORTH OF MOORESVILLE IN DAVIE COUNTY A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN HAS DEVELOPED IN THE LAST 15 MINUTES...NO MOVEMENT YET ON THIS STORM. STORMS PASS. PERSONS IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF NECCESSARY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND ANY POSSIBLE WARNINGS THIS AFTERNOON. RJD
Special weather statement, May 4, 4:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
NCZ006-040330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT..CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 415 PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN BECOMING MORE NUMBEROUS OVER THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 400 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN BECOMING MORE NUMBEROUS IN FORSYTH...DAVIE...IREDELL AND ROWAN COUNTIES THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN CENTRAL IREDELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT IS TO THE EAST 30 MPH. ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS SO FAR THIS AFTERNOON OF HAIL...THERE COULD VERY WELL BE SOME SMALL HAIL IN THESE STORMS IN IREDELL COUNTY. ALSO JUST NORTH OF MOORESVILLE IN DAVIE COUNTY A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN HAS DEVELOPED IN THE LAST 15 MINUTES...NO MOVEMENT YET ON THIS STORM. PERSONS IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION IF NECCESSARY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND ANY POSSIBLE WARNINGS THIS AFTERNOON. CORRECTION FOR EXTRA WORDS... RJD
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.