Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1990, 6:33 PM EDT for Vance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1990, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1990, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vance 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 182235 SVRRDU NCC181-182315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 633 PM EDT MON JUN 18 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 NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VANCE COUNTY... AT 628 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS SHOWN BY RADAR OVER CENTRAL VANCE COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF HENDERSON AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PASS OVER OR NEAR THE CITY OF HENDERSON. 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 ANmYONE 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, Jun 18, 6:03 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
NCZ003>005-014-015-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 605 PM EDT MON JUN 18 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 900 PM EDT THIS EVENING... AT 550 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN VIRGINIA JUST NORTH OF THE PERSON COUNTY-GRANVILLE COUNTY LINE AND EXTENDED EAST ACROSS CLARKSVILLE AND SOUTH HILL VIRGINIA. THIS SAME AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH AND QUARTER INCH HAIL WHEN THEY PASSED THROUGH VOLENS VIRGINIA...JUST NORTH OF SOUTH BOSTON VA AROUND 435 PM. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THEY WILL BE AFFECTING THE KERR LAKE AREA, NORTHERN GRANVILLE, NORTHERN VANCE, AND NORTHERN WARREN COUNTIES BETWEEN NOW AND 700 PM THIS EVENING. BOATERS AND OTHER PERSONS IN AND AROUND KERR LAKE SHOULDF PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HLW
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.