Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1988, 6:22 PM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1988, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1988, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 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 nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1293 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 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 tornado 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 10, 4:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 10, 5:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 505 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ALL THE UPSTATE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 5 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED THROUGH PICKENS AND OCONEE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA.. AND ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN GEORGIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING JUST NORTH OF SENECA. THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY BE EXPECTED IN OCCONEE... PICKENS...GREENVILLE...AND NORTHERN ANDERSON COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA...WITH POSSIBLE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL. PLEASE MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FREQUENTLY DURING LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS FOR THE LASTEST DEVELOPMENTS. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:23 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 520 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ALL THE UPSTATE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 5.15 THIS AFTERNOON A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING IN THE CLEMSON...PENDLETON AND LIBERTY AREAS OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR...WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. HAM RADIO OPERATORS IN OCONEE AND SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTIES HAVE REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME SMALL HAIL DURING THE LAST HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING... AND SOME HAIL...MAY BE EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF OCCONEE...PICKENS... GREENVILLE...AND ANDERSON COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA...DURING THE NEXT HOUR. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:35 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 530 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 1988 AT 530 THIS TUESDAY EVENING...CHARLOTTE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EXTENDING INTO NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED DIAGONALLY ACROSS NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY TO SOUTHWESTERN CLEVELAND COUNTY...BOTH IN NORTH CAROLINA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL BRING THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CLEVELAND COUNTY AND THE TOWNS OF SHELBY AND KINGS MOUNTAIN BY AROUND 630 THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE TOWN OF LINCOLNTON...IN LINCOLN COUNTY...BY ABOUT 545 PM. A SKYWARN OBSERVER REPORTED NICKEL SIZED HAIL OF ABOUT 5 MINUTES DURATION FALLING NEAR THE TOWN OF MOORESBORO...IN SOUTHWESTERN CLEVELAND COUNTY...AROUND 5 THIS EVENING. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT 630 PM. CLARK
Special weather statement, May 10, 6:03 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 600 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT FOR ALL THE UPSTATE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 5.55 PM A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS...FROM NEAR WOODRUFF...ACROSS SOUTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY...TO ANDERSON...THEN ACROSS LAKE HARTWELL. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NOTED BY WEATHER RADAR NEAR STARR AND BELTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...LIGHTNING... AND SMALL HAIL...CAN BE EXPECTED OVER PORTIONS OF ANDERSON... ABBEVILLE...LAURENS...AND SOUTHERN GREENVILLE0 COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, May 10, 6:04 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 600 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 1988 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL MIDNIGHT. AT 6 THIS EVENING...CHARLOTTE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING ACROSS NORTHERN MECKLENBURG...FROM NORTHEASTERN TO WEST-CENTRAL GASTON COUNTY THEN INTO CENTRAL CLEVELAND COUNTY...ALL IN NORTH CAROLINA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL BRING THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINS....POSSIBLE HAIL...AND STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN CLEVELAND COUNTY...GASTON COUNTY...AND THE CITY OF GASTONIA...AND NORTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY...ALL IN NORTH CAROLINA BY AROUND 630 THIS EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE CHARLOTTE AREA BETWEEN 630 AND 7 THIS EVENING. THE SKYWARN NET HAS BEEN ACTIVATED AND NET CONTROL IS OPERATING FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN CHARLOTTE. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PEA SIZED HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM CLEVELAND COUNTY...IN THE VICINITY OF SHELBY BETWEEN 530 AND 6 THIS EVENING. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. PEOPLE IN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA ARE ADVISED TO BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AT 700 PM. CLARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 56 min |
Nearby
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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.