Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1987, 2:44 AM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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
- Apr 15, 1987, 2:44 AM EDT (06:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1987, 3:40 AM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2:45 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Cherokee, 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
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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, Apr 15, 2:04 AM EDT, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 200 AM EDT WED APR 15 1987 AT 130 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN GEORGIA..EASTERN TENNESSEE AND NORTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS..BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS LIVING IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THEY PASS. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED WHEN NEEDED. OS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 3:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Clay | 64 min |
| Apr 15, 8:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 58 min |
| Apr 15, 11:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 63 min |
| Apr 15, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 60 min |
| Apr 15, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 31 min |
| Apr 15, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 46 min |
| Apr 15, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 56 min |
| Apr 15, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.