Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1990, 5:35 PM EDT for Halifax County, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 1990, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1990, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Halifax County, NC, Northampton 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 436 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1776 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 292138 SVRRDU NCC083-131-292215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 535 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...HALIFAX COUNTY...NORTHHAMPTON COUNTY AT 530 PM NATIOANL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ENFIELD IN HALIFAX COUNTY. TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN BY STRONG WINDS IN THE ENFIELD AREA. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN EDGECOMBE AND MUCH OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTRY BY 6 PM. 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, Aug 29, 3:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
NCZALL-292020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 352 PM EDT AUG 29 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 704 IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 10 PM EDT... AT 350 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE TRIANGLE AREA. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. WTVD IN DURHAM REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL OCCURRED IN CHAPEL HILL AT 345 PM. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS. LGL
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 4:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
NCZALL-292030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 405 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 704 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. AT 405 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM EXTREME NORTHERN WAKE COUNTY SOUTHWEST ACROSS DURHAM COUNTY...SOUTHERN ORANGE COUNTY...AND CHATHAM COUNTY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN DURHAM COUNTY AND OVER CHATHAM COUNTY. AT 400 PM...MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS OCCURRING IN NORTHWEST CHATHAM COUNTY NEAR SILER CITY. BOATERS ON FALLS LAKE AND JORDAN LAKE SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. ^ THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER WARREN COUNTY AT 405 PM. ^ LISTEN TO RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS. LGL
Local storm report, Aug 29, 5:05 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 502 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990 TIME EVENT 430-435 PM EDT PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL IN NORTHEAST RALEIGH...WAKE COUNTY. 448 PM (EDT PEA SIZE HAIL IN ZEBULON...WAKE COUNTY. JBP
Local storm report, Aug 29, 5:16 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
516 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990
TIME EVENT
510 PM EDT A FEW TREES DOWN IN WESTERN NASH COUNTY IN THE TOWNS
OF MIDDLESEX A;ND CASTALIA.
KKLocal storm report, Aug 29, 5:18 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 517 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990 TIME EVENT 515 PM EDT PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN WARREN COUNTY. KK
Local storm report, Aug 29, 5:19 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
520 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990
ATTN SELS...
245 PM EDT..1845Z GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN SOUTHWEST ROCKINGHAM COUNTY.
300 PM EDT..1900Z TREE DOWN ACROSSB ROADWAY IN SOUTHEAST GUILFORD COUNTY
NOT FAR FROM DAMAGE THAT OCCURRED AT LAKE JUNO PARK.
RBNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 32 min |
| Aug 29, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Northampton | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash | 47 min |
| Aug 29, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 50 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.