Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Blacksburg, VA
NWS Blacksburg, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1990, 7:12 PM EDT for Iredell County, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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
- May 1, 1990, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Blacksburg, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Iredell County, NC, Rowan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 7:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Iredell, NC | |
| May 1, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Rowan, 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 564 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGSO 012312
SVRGSO
NCC159-097-020000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
712 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTHERN ROWAN...SOUTHERN IREDELL
AT 710 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE MOORESVILLE
AREA OF SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.
THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHERN ROWAN SHORTLY.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND( DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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, May 1, 3:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
VAZALL-012000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA 250PM EDT TUE MAY 1 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... AT 245PM WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING TWO OR THREE VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AROUND THE DICKENSON TO WISE TO RUSSELL COUNTY AREA. POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED OVER A STORM ENTERING DICKENSON COUNTY. THE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO THE AREA CENTERED AROUND SMYTH COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR SO PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES AND THE ADJACENT COUNTIES TO THE EAST...BLAND..WYTHE...AND GRAYSON... SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE LIGHTNING...HAIL AND HIGH WINDS DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...AND STA\Y TUNED TO RADIO AND TV BROADCASTS PLUS NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS. END/MCINTOSH
Special weather statement, May 1, 5:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
VAZALL-012300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROANOKE VA
520 PM EDT TUE MAY 1 1990
...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...
AT 515 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS...WITH A FEW
EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER EASTERN CARROLL...
SOUTHERN PATRICK...AND SOUTHWEST HENRY COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD
PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.
PEOPLE IN THESE VIRGINIA COUNTIES ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER SHOULD
BE ALERT FOR APPROACHING THUNDERSTORMS...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE
SHELTER.
END/JACKSON
{The office that day
Everything else NWS Blacksburg, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alexander | 31 min |
| May 1, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 31 min |
| May 1, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Iredell | 31 min |
| May 1, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Iredell | 49 min |
| May 1, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Guilford, Rockingham | 50 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.