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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 16, 1988Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1988, 8:04 PM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1988, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1988, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Gaston County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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, May 16, 6:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 6:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 16, 7:20 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 7:25 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 7:36 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 8:01 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Stanly	27 min
May 17, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell	64 min
May 17, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	57 min
May 17, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba	52 min
May 17, 1:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	62 min
May 17, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	64 min
May 17, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	66 min
May 17, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	58 min
May 17, 2:40 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cleveland	35 min
May 17, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	44 min
May 17, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	43 min
May 17, 3:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	30 min
May 17, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	49 min
May 17, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Union	43 min
May 16, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	55 min
May 17, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	67 min
May 17, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	69 min
May 17, 1:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	69 min
May 17, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	58 min
May 17, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	69 min
May 17, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	44 min
May 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1988 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.