Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1990, 9:49 PM EDT for Durham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1990, 9:49 PM EDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1990, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Durham 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 190151 SVRRDU NCC063-190230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 949 PM EDT MON JUN 18 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...DURHAM COUNTY AT 947 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE DURHAM-ORANGE COUNTY LINE JUST NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF DURHAM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER THE CITY OF DURHAM. 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, Jun 18, 6:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 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
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 7:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
NCZ003>005-190015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 715 PM EDT MON JUN 18 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 900 PM EDT THIS EVENING... AT 700 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN HALIFAX COUNTY WEST ACROSS NORTHERN FRANKLIN COUNTY AND SOUTHERN WARREN, VANCE AND GRANVILLE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY SOUTH OF INEZ, IN NORTHERN FRANKLIN NORTH OF FRANKLINTON, AND SOUTHERN GRANVILLE NORTH OF CREEDMOOR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM CELL WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF ROXBORO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN AND PORTIONS OF THE TRIANGLE AREA BETWEEN NOW AND 830 THIS EVENING. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR VANCE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, A WIND GUST TO 38 MPH WAS OBSERVED 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF HENDERSON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT FOR THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT AND MUCH OF THE NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN OF NORTH CAROLINA. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HLW
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 9:20 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 915 PM EDT MON JUN 18 1990 ...NORTH CAROLINA SKYWARN OUTLOOK... THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH LARGE HAIL AN_D DAMAGING WINDS OVER ALL EXCEPT SOUTHEAST SECTIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. JFB
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.