Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1990, 8:46 PM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 8, 1990, 8:46 PM EDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buncombe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.5 | Buncombe, NC | |
| Jun 8, 9:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Buncombe, 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 2271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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, Jun 8, 4:09 PM EDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
NCZ008-007-014-082150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 400 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...THIS STATEMENT REPLACES THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT ERRONOUSLY TRANSMITTED AT 405 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WHICH INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO CLEVELAND...CATAWBA...LINCOLN...GASTON... MECKLENBURG...CABARRUS...UNION...ANSON...STANLY...MONTGOMERY... RICHMOND...IREDELL AND ROWAN COUNTIES... AT 400 THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE DETECTED ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF HICKORY AND ALONG THE NORTHERN STANLY AND MONTGOMERY COUNTYLINE ...IN THE VICINITY OF BADIN LAKE. BOATERS ON BADIN LAKE SHOULD GO TO DOCK IMMEDIATELY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 10 MILES AN HOUR. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP IN A SCATTERED PATTERN THROUGHOUT THE REMAINDER OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA AS THIS EVENING PROGRESSES. SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP WITHIN YOUR IMMEDIATE VICINITY...GO IMMEDIATELY TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF WEATHER RELATED DAMAGES TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO DIRECT YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY BEFORE 600 THIS EVENING. RNM
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
NCZ007-009-010-011-012-013-082100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 505 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL THE FOOTHILLS AND HENDERSON COUNTY OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TIL 10 PM EDT... AT 5 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN HENDERSON COUNTY MOVING INTO POLK COUNTY ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA- SOUTH CAROLINA BORDER. ELSEWHERE...A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS WERE INDICATED OVER PARTS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH ARE. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF MCDOWELL...POLK...BURKE...CALDWELL... RUTHERFORD AND HENDERSON IN THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO...TV... OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNI<NGS. CC
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
NCZ008-007-014-082345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 530 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WHICH INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO CLEVELAND...CATAWBA...LINCOLN...GASTON... MECKLENBURG...CABARRUS...UNION...ANSON...STANLY...MONTGOMERY... RICHMOND...IREDELL AND ROWAN COUNTIES... AT 525 THIS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL WERE DETECTED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HICKORY IN CATAWBA COUNTY AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST LESS THAN 10 MPH AND TOWARD LAKE NORMAN. BOATERS ON LAKE NORMAN SHOULD GO TO DOCK IMMEDIATELY. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND MORE COULD DEVELOP WITHIN THE LISTENING AREA THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. SHOULD THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP WITHIN YOUR IMMEDIATE VICINITY...GO IMMEDIATELY TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF WEATHER RELATED DAMAGES TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO DIRECT YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY BEFORE 800 TH`IS EVENING. STEWART
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 32 min |
| Jun 9, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 69 min |
| Jun 9, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 57 min |
| Jun 9, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.