Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1986, 6:46 PM EDT for Catawba County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 min. 3 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
- Jul 26, 1986, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1986, 7:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Catawba 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Catawba, NC | |
| Jul 26, 7:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Catawba, NC | |
| Jul 26, 7:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Catawba, 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 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 KCLT 262246 SVRCLT NCC035-262350- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 646 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA... CATAWBA AT 635 PM CHARLOTTE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHEASTERN PORTION OF CATAWBA COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH..DOWN THE CATAWBA RIVER..ABOUT 5 MPH. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WERE REPORTED IN THE STONY POINT SECTION OF ALEXANDER COUNTY AT 630 AS THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVED THROUGH. EVERYONE ON THE CATAWBA RIVER AzBOVE LAKE NORMAN AND EVERYONE ON THE HEADWATERS OF LAKE NORMAN SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS... DAMAGING WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. CLARK
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, Jul 26, 3:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 300 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS SATURDAY EVENING FOR MOST OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING THE COUNTIES OF CATAWBA..MECKLENBURG..UNION..ANSON.. MONTGOMERY..STANLY..CABARRUS AND RICHMOND. AT 250 PM WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SCATTERED AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS FROM NEAR WEST JEFFERSON SOUTHWARD TO ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHEVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THE CHARLOTTE OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE THROUGH 3 PM. THE NEXT STATEMENT IS PLANNED FOR hAROUND 5 PM EDT. RPG
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 5:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 500 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING CATAWBA..MECKLENBURG..UNION..ANSON.. MONTGOMERY..STANLY..CABARRUS..AND RICHMOND COUNTIES. AT 5 O'CLOCK..CHARLOTTE WEATHER RADAR DETECTED NO PRECIPITATION WITHIN ANY OF THESE COUNTIES. A SHOWER OVER NORTHEASTERN BURKE COUNTY..JUST WEST OF HICKORY..WILL MOVE INTO CATAWBA COUNTY BY 530. ELSEWHERE..CHARLOTTE WEATHER RADAR DETECTED VERY HEAVY THUNDER STORMS NEAR GREENSBORO AND IN THE FAYETTEVILLE AREA. ALL OF THE VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH EAST ABOUT 15 MPH. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN RECEIVED BY THE CHARLOTTE OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE THROUGH 5 O'CLOCK. THE NEXT STATEMENT ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE WILL BE AT 7 PM. CLARK
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:18 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 620 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A CLUSTER OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS FROM ASHEVILLE SOUTH TO HENDERSONVILLE IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOW VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTIAN HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH POSSIBLE HAIL. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORM WAS A SHORT DISTANCE SOUTHEAST OF HENDERSONVILLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTRM WARNI=NGS MIGHT BE NECESSARY IF FURTHER INTENSIFI- CATION OCCURS. ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS THEY ARE NEEDED. AS
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 6:20 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 620 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1986 THUNDERSTORMS ARE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING OVER PARTS OF NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY THIS EVENING. THEY EXTEND FROM JUST NORTH OF THE CITY OF GREENVILLE TO THE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER. THERE WILL BE LITTLE IF ANY MOVEMENT TO THE STORMS AND THEY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY DOWNPOURS..GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. PERSONS IN NORTHERN GREENVIiLLE COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE STORMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. SP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.