Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1986, 12:58 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 1986, 12:58 PM EDT (16:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 1986, 1:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mecklenburg 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 592 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 6, 12:10 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1205 PM EDT WED AUG 6 1986 ...A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA BY 1215 THIS AFTERNOON... AT NOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF GASTONIA OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF CHARLOTTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY BETWEEN GASTONIA AND SPARTANBURG SHORTLY AFTER 11 AM. INITIAL IT WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST ALONG I-85 AND CHARLOTTE. AT NOON IT HAD TURNED MORE NORTHERLY TOWARD GASTONIA AND WAS MOVING AT ABOUT 15 MPH. LIGHT RAIN SURROUNDED THIS THUNDERSTORM AND COVERED MOST OF THE AREA FROM KINGS MOUNTAIN TO GASTONIA..SOUTH CHARLOTTE AND JUST EAST OF PINEVILLE ALL IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE RAIN WAS ALONG A LINE FROM YORK TO BLACKSBURG IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ON ITS PRESENT COURSE..RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS..WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST ACROSS CHARLOTTE..MOORESVILLE AND CONCORD BY ABOUT 1 OCLOCK. AT THE SAME TIME RAIN WILL BE ENDING IN YORK AND BLACKSBURG SOUTH CAROLINA. RK
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 12:21 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1220 PM EDT WED AUG 6 1986 ...CORRECTED SPELLING AND CLARIFIED 3RD AND 4TH PARAGRAPHS... ...A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA BY 1215 THIS AFTERNOON... AT NOON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF GASTONIA OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF CHARLOTTE. THIS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY BETWEEN GASTONIA AND SPARTANBURG SHORTLY AFTER 11 AM. INITIALLY THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST ALONG I-85 AND CHARLOTTE. AT NOON IT HAD TURNED MORE NORTHERLY TOWARD GASTONIA AND WAS MOVING AT ABOUT 15 MPH. LIGHT RAIN SURROUNDED THIS THUNDERSTORM AND COVERED MOST OF THE AREA FROM KINGS MOUNTAIN TO GASTONIA..SOUTH CHARLOTTE AND JUST EAST OF PINEVILLE..ALL IN NORTH CAROLINA. THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE RAIN WAS ALONG A LINE FROM YORK TO BLACKSBURG IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ON ITS PRESENT COURSE RAIN..WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS..WILL SPREAD NORTHEAST ACROSS CHARLOTTE..MOORESVILLE AND CONCORD BY ABOUT 1 OCLOCK. AT THE SAME TIME RAIN WILL BE ENDING IN YORK AND BLACKSBURG SOUTH CAROLINA. RK
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 12:34 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1235PM EDT WED AUG 6 1986 ...UPDATE ON VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA AND TOWARD LAKE NORMAN... AT 1230 THIS AFTERNOON RADAR SHOWED THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF CHARLOTTE HAD INCREASED IN FORWARD SPEED TO ABOUT 40 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND 1/4 INCH HAIL WAS OBSERVED AT SPENCER MOUNTAIN WHICH IS JUST NORTH OF GASTONIA IN GASTON COUNTY. ALL MARINE INTEREST ON LAKE NORMAN SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS FOR THIS STORM. BOATERS SHOULD GET OFF OF THE LAKE AT ONCE AND THOSE FRONTING THE LAKE SHOULD ANTICIPATE WINDS OF AT LEAST 50 MPH THROUGH 1 OCLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. EVERYONE IN THE AREA TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST THROUGH MORRESVILLE.. HUNTERSVILLE..CORNELIUS..CONCORD AND KANNAPOLIS SHOULD ALSO BE PREPARED VIGORUS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH 1 PM EDT. RK.
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 12:41 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...TIME OF HAIL IN 2ND PARAGRAPH ADDED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1240PM EDT WED AUG 6 1986 ...UPDATE ON VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH GASTONIA NORTH CAROLINA AND TOWARD LAKE NORMAN... AT 1230 THIS AFTERNOON RADAR SHOWED THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF CHARLOTTE HAD INCREASED IN FORWARD SPEED TO ABOUT 40 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND 1/4 INCH HAIL WERE OBSERVED AT SPENCER MOUNTAIN AT 1221 PM. SPENCER MOUNTAIN IS JUST NORTH OF GASTONIA IN GASTON COUNTY. ALL MARINE INTEREST ON LAKE NORMAN SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS FOR THIS STORM. BOATERS SHOULD GET OFF OF THE LAKE AT ONCE AND THOSE FRONTING THE LAKE SHOULD ANTICIPATE WINDS OF AT LEAST 50 MPH THROUGH 1 OCLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. EVERYONE IN THE AREA TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST THROUGH MORRESVILLE.. HUNTERSVILLE..CORNELIUS..CONCORD AND KANNAPOLIS SHOULD ALSO BE PREPARED VIGORUS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH 1 PM EDT. RK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.