Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 9:18 PM EDT for Orange County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1990, 9:18 PM EDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1990, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orange 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 100120 SVRRDU NCC135-100215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 918 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...ORANGE COUNTY AT 915 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN BY RADAR TO BE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST ORANGE COUNTY FROM CASWELL AND ALAMANCE COUNTIES. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 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 THUNDE8RSTORM.
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, Jun 9, 4:08 PM EDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
NCZ007-092100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 405 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...A THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 400 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF WILKES COUNTY OF THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. PERSONS IN WILKES COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE NEXT HOUR AS THIS STORM MOVES ACROSS THE COUNTY. TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. GR
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:12 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
NCZ007-092200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 510 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 505 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN IREDELL AND WESTERN SURRY COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. PERSONS IN SURRY AND NORTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE NEXT HOUR AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES. TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. GR
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 6:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 12 minutes before
NCZ006-007-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 605 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NEAR PILOT MOUNTAIN OF EASTERN SURRY COUNTY... ALONG THE WILKES/ALEXANDER COUNTY LINE SOUTH OF BOOMER AND NORTHERN IREDELL COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE STORM WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WAS ALONG THE WILKES/ALEXANDER COUNTY LINE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. PERSONS IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COU$NTIES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE NEXT HOUR AS THESE STORMS MOVE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES. TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASS. GR
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
NCZ006-007-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 755 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT ...THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 1 AM... AT 750 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHERN ROCKINGHAM...EASTERN STOKES... SOUTHEAST WILKES AND ALEXANDER COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE JUST EAST OF EDEN IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY AND JUST SOUTH OF TAYLORSVILLE OF ALEXANDER COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL. PERSONS IN ROCKINGHAM...STOKES...WILKES...YADKIN...ALEXANDER AND NORTHERN IREDELL SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. GR
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 8:46 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
NCZ003>005-014-015-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 845 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TIL 1AM THIS MORNING. AT 830PM THIS EVENING WEATHER RADAR SHOWED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTHWEST PERSON COUNTY WEST AND SOUTHWEST TO ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE CASWELL-PERSON COUNTY LINE NEAR THE VIRGINIA BORDER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CASWELL AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTIES UNTIL 915PM THIS EVENING. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JNV
Local storm report, Jun 9, 9:16 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
913 PM EDT SAT JUN 09 1990
TIME EVENT
844PM EDT SHERIFF'S DEPUTY IN MILTON-SAMORA AREA OF NORTHEAST
CASWELL COUNT1Y NORTH CAROLIN NEAR PERSONS COUNTY LINE
REPORTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH QUARTER SIZE HAIL
HIGH WINDS AND LOTS OF LIGHTNING.
JFBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.