Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 4, 1989, 7:27 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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 4, 1989, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 1989, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mecklenburg 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 4, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Mecklenburg, 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 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 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, Apr 4, 5:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 512 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989 MARBLE HAIL AND 40 KNOTS IN CLEMSON 515 PM. DIME HAIL ANDERSON AIRPORT 522 PM. WAJ
Special weather statement, Apr 4, 5:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 550 PM EDT TUE APR 04 1989 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MACON..SWAIN...RUTHERFORD...TRANSYLVANIA..BUNCOMBE..BURKE..MCDOWELL.. HAYWOOD..POLK..AND HENDERSON COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 1100 PM EDT TONIGHT... AT 545 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VERY DAMAGING TORNADOES. PONDING WATER ON ROADS AND POSSIBLE URBAN FLOODING ARE POSSIBLE IN LOW LYING AND FLOOD PRONE AREAS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION SO AS TO AVOID HYDROPLANING. ALSO, PERSONS IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK HIGHER GROUND. GRC/OS
Local storm report, Apr 4, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 600 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989 GMU TOWER REPORTS 50 KNOTS NOW. METERORGIST GREENVILLE ROPER MTOUNTAIN HAIL LARGER THAN DIME WAJ
Local storm report, Apr 4, 6:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 607 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989 WSO GREER CURRENTLY GUST 62 KNOTS AND 3/4 HAIL. WAJ
Local storm report, Apr 4, 6:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 607 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989 TORNADO RPTD AT SC 290 AND I85 BY SPARTANBURG CO. POLICE. WAJ
Local storm report, Apr 4, 7:06 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 704 PM EDT TUE APR 4 1989 WIND DAMAGE AND SOME TORNADOES HAVE OCCURRED OVER PRACTICALLY ALL OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. DAMAGE IS QUITE EXTENSIVE IN SEVERAL COUNTIES. SPARTANBURG COUNTY REPORTED THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE TRAPPED IN MOBILE HOME WRECKAGE...AND APPARENTLY SOME SHERIFFS VEHICLES WERE CAUGHT IN A TORNADO. A TELEPHONE SURVEY OF COUNTIES WILL BEGIN TONIGHT...AND AN ONSITE SURVEY WILL BE CONDUCToED TOMORROW. WE WILL TRANSMIT SPECIFIC TIMES AND LOCATIONS WITH TYPE OF DAMAGE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WAJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 6:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 6:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 51 min |
| Apr 4, 7:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 4:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee | 63 min |
| Apr 4, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 69 min |
| Apr 4, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 61 min |
| Apr 4, 5:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 56 min |
| Apr 4, 5:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 66 min |
| Apr 4, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Union | 59 min |
| Apr 4, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 55 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.