Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1987, 7:01 PM EDT for Polk County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 1987, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 1987, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk 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
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 KAVL 032301 SVRAVL NCC149-040000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 701 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA... POLK AT 655 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF TRYON IN POLK COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVIN$G EAST TOWARD TRYON AT AROUND 15 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH. GRC
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, Jun 3, 1:26 PM EDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 125 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987 ...THUNDERSTORMS FORM OVER THE SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS... AT 1.20 THIS AFTERNOON A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BY WEATHER RADAR SCATTERED ALONG THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTH CAROLINA...FROM JUST NORTH OF WALHALLA...TO ROCKY BOTTOM...TO CAESARS HEAD...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE OVER SOUTH CAROLINA...AND THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS LIeKELY TO GRADUALLY INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE HAIL...AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE UPSTATE COUNTIES. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 201 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS... AT 1.55 THIS AFTERNOON A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED BY WEATHER RADAR ALONG THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS...OVER LAKE KEOWEE AND NEAR TIGERVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST ABOUT 15 MPH. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE OVER NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS LIKELY TO SLOLWY INCREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE HAIL...AS THEY MOVE EAST ACROSS THE UPSTATE COUNTIES. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 240 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987 AT 235PM A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR JUST EAST OF HENDERSONVILLE. DURING THE PAST HOUR SEVERAL OTHER THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 TO 10 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS D?URING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS FOR INFORMATION ON THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. RED
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 5:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 520 PM EDT WED JUN 03 1987 ...VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 515 PM CHARLOTTE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN CATAWBA COUNTY NEAR HICKORY. ANOTHER HEAVY THUNDER- STORM IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IS MOVING EAST AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO CLEVELAND COUNTY BY 6 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS...FREQUENT LIGHTING...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. ALSO WITH THE HEAVY RAIN LOCAL URBAN FLOODING IS POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TV...OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JPW
Local storm report, Jun 3, 6:08 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA 605 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987 THE BURKE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT A VERY LARGE TREE HAD BEEN UPROOTED BY HIGH WINDS AT APPROXIMATELY 445 PM NEAR MORAGANTON. THIS TREE WAS BLOWN ONTO THE EASTBOUND LANES OF INTERSTATE 40 AND TOTALLY BLOCKED EASTBOUND TRAFFIC. AS OF 530 PM TRAFFIC WAS STILL IMPEDED BY THIS TREE. GRC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 56 min |
| Jun 3, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 57 min |
| Jun 3, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.