Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1990, 9:11 PM EST for Henderson County, Polk County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 1990, 9:11 PM EST (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1990, 10:15 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henderson County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford 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
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 525 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAVL 170211
SVRAVL
NCC089-149-161-170315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
911 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
SOUTHERN HENDERSON...POLK...RUTHERFORD
AT 908 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWN ON RADAR
EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWEST HENDERSON COUNTY INTO SOUTH CAROLINA.
THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH TOWARD HENDERSONVILLE.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING, PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON`T USE TELEPHO7NES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PEOPLE IN ITS PATH SHOULD MOVE TO A
REINFORCED SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.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, Mar 16, 3:11 PM EST, 6 hours before
SCZ001>004-162115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 310 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY... AT 315 THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER RADAR NOTED A ONE TO TWO HOUR BREAK IN THE RAIN ACROSS NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA AND THROUGH OCONEE COUNTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. ELSEWHERE...LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN WAS FALLING IN THE UPSTATE AREAS OF THE PALMETTO STATE...WITH& A FEW HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS IN GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING NORTHEAST...WITH LITTLE CHANGE. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 7:19 PM EST, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SCZ001>004-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 720 PM EST FRI MAR 16 1990 ...SOME SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES TO BE REPORTED FROM THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH IS MOVING TOWARD THE UPSTATE... AT 715 PM EST THE LINE OF STORMS STRETCHED FROM NORTH OF ATHENS TO NEAR MACON AND CONTINUED MOVING EAST ABOUT 30 MPH. THE NORTHERN END OF THE LINE COULD AFFECT OCONEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA AROUND 800 PM...AND THE MOST INTENSE PART OF THE LINE COULD AFFECT THE ANDERSON/ABBEVILLE COUNTIES AREA BETWEEN 800 PM AND 900 PM. IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL MAINTAIN SEVERITY. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CAREFULLY MONITOR THE PROGESS 3OF THIS WEATHER SYSTEM. IN ADDITION...FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS COULD BECOME NECESSARY IN PARTS OF THE UPSTATE DURING THE EVENING. JONES
Special weather statement, Mar 16, 8:20 PM EST, 51 minutes before
NCZ 010-011-012-013-170315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 820 PM EST FRI MAR 17 1990 AT 810 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN MACON COUNTY. THIS WAS PART OF A LINE OF STORMS EXTENDING SOUTHWARD THROUGH WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN GEORGIA. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MACON..JACKSON..TRANSYLVANIA..HENDERSON.. POLK AND RUTHERFORD COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. THESE MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN IN ADDITION TO DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. HM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham, Jackson, Macon, Swain | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 7:10 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Clay | 3 hr |
| Mar 16, 9:44 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:11 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 2 hr |
| Mar 16, 11:13 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:19 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Macon | 3 hr |
| Mar 17, 3:49 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Watauga | 2 hr |
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.