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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 29, 1990Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1990, 7:55 PM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 1990, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 1990, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wilson 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 292357
SVRRDU
NCC195-300045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
755 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...WILSON COUNTY
 
AT 8 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING INTO WESTERN WILSON COUNTY FROM JOHNSTON COUNTY WHERE DIME SIZE
HAIL HAD FALLEN.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT WILSON
COUNTY THROUGH 845 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

Local storm report, Aug 29, 5:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 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.

RBN

Local storm report, Aug 29, 5:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
541 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990

TIME           EVENT

532 PM EDT     TREES DOWN IN ROCKY MOUNT AREA OF EDGECOMBE
               COUNTY AND WINDS ESTIMAXTED AT 50-60 MPH IN
               THE ROANOKE RAPIDS AREA OF HALIFAX COUNTY.
               REPORTS RELAYED BY HAM RADIO WEATHER NETWORK.

KK

Local storm report, Aug 29, 5:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
554 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990

TIME           EVENT

540 PM EDT     IN WILSON COUNTY...TREES DOWN NEAR THE INTERSECTION
               OF US 117 AND SkR 1642. TREES ALSO DOWN ON SR 1106.
               TREES DOWN AT BREWERS SPEEDWAY. INFORMATION RECEIVED
               FROM WILSON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT.

JBP

Local storm report, Aug 29, 6:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
609 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990

TIME           EVENT

530-600 PM EDT IN HALIFAX COUNTY...NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND ROADS
               BLOCKED IN THE ENxFIELD AND WHITE OAK AREA. ROOF BLOWN
               A STORE IN WHITE OAK AREA.

               FROM HALIFAX COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT.

KK

Local storm report, Aug 29, 6:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
640 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990

TIME           EVENT

610-630 PM EDT IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY...NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS
               SEVERAL STATE ROADS.

               FROM NORTHAMPTON COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT.

KK

Local storm report, Aug 29, 7:18 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
712 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990

TIME           EVENT

710     PM EDT IN WESTERN NASH COUNTY...MARBLE SIZE HAIL.
        REPORTED BY NASH COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE.

700     PM EDT IN EASTERN WAKE COUNTY...PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED
        BY PUBLIC.

        NOTE TO SELS...HAIL TAKING PLACE IN NEWLY DEVELOPED
        TBUNDERSTORMS OVER AREAS WHERE STRONG TO SEVERE
        STORMS HAVE PREVIOSLY PASSED. ADAP SHOWS MOISTURE FLUX
        AXIS AND STREMLINE CONFLUENT ZONE ACROSS EASTERN NC
        IN WATCH # 704 AREA.

KK

The 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, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Northampton	40 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1990 Every 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.