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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 29, 1990Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 1990, 8:57 PM EDT for Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 1990, 8:57 PM EDT (00:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 1990, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 29, 9:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Wayne, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 300059
SVRRDU
NCC191-300145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
857 PM EDT WED AUG 29 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 9 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ON THE JOHNSTON - WAYNE COUNTY LINE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
THIS STORM COMPLEX DROPPED QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN EASTERN JOHSNTON
COUNTY.
 
 
 
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, 5:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 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, 2 hours 46 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, 2 hours 16 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, 1 hour 39 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

Local storm report, Aug 29, 8:21 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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

TIME           EVENT

805     PM EDT IN SOUTHERN NASH COUNTY...SMALL HAIL.
        REPORTED BY NASH COUNTY SHERIFF OFFI=CE.

805     PM EDT IN CENTRAL JOHNSTON COUNTY...MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
        BY JOHNSTON COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE.

KK

Local storm report, Aug 29, 8:35 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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

TIME           EVENT

825     PM EDT IN EASTERN JOHNSTON COUNTY...QUARTER SIZE HAIL
        REPORTED BY JOHNSTON COUNTYL SHERIFF OFFICE.

KK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 29, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	38 min
Aug 29, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.