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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 5, 1989Lincoln County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1989, 7:16 PM EDT for Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1989, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1989, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1989-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1989-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA
 544 EDT MON JUN 5 1989

 3/4 INCH HAIL SOUTH OF TRYON ON I-26 IN POLK COUNTY AT 537 EDT.

TREES DOWN IN SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY NEAR U.S. 74.
AS
Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA
548 EDT MON JUN 5 1989  CORRECTION

3/4 INCH HAIL SOUTH OF TRYON ON I-26 IN POLK COUNTY AT 537 EDT.

TREES DOWN IN SOUTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY NEAR U.S. 74. AT 540 PM EDT.
AS
Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC
525 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989

535-545 PM EDT    NUMEROUS REPORTS WIND DAMAGE GREENVILLE AND VICINITY.
548     PM EDT    DIME HAIL NORTH OF LYMAN IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY AND
                  HIGH WINDS PELHAM BATESVILLE AREA EMERGENCY PREP.
530 PM     EDT    NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN PICKENS TO
                  LIBERTY.

REFERENCE EARLIER REPORT FROM EASLEY...PERSON TRAPPED IN VEHICLE FROM
DOWNED POWER LINES.

WAJ/GSP
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
550 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 THIS EVENING FOR
MUCH OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA.   INCLUDING...BUT NOT LIMITED TO
CLEVELAND...CATAWBA...LINCOLN...GASTON...MECKLENBURG...CABARRUS...
UNION...ANSON..STANLY...MONTGOMERY...RICHMOND...IREDELL...AND ROWAN
COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA...AND CHEROKEE...YORK...CHESTER...AND
LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

AT 545 PM...CHARLOTTE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
COVERING MUCH OF THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL CAROLINAS.  A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS ...EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF HICKORY ACROSS BURKE AND
RUTHERFORD COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA INTO SPARTANBURG COUNTY OF
SOUTH CAROLINA.  THE LINE WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND
20 MPH.  THIS MOVEMENT WILL BRING THE STORMS INTO CATAWBA AND
CLEVELAND COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA AND INTO CHEROKEE COUNTY OF
SOUTH CAROLINA BEFORE 630 THIS EVENING.

THESE STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY
RAINS AND LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLE HAIL.

THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 745 THIS EVENING.

CLARK
Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:26 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell64 min
Jun 5, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson, Transylvania62 min
Jun 5, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk, Rutherford44 min
Jun 5, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland49 min
Jun 5, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg55 min
Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee33 min
Jun 5, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson, Oconee68 min
Jun 5, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens62 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville69 min
Jun 5, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg57 min
Jun 5, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens, Union66 min
Jun 5, 5:59 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg46 min
Jun 5, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.