Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1990, 4:32 PM EDT for Catawba County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1990, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1990, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Catawba 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 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
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
NCZ009-010-011-012-101810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 110 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 1990 AT 1PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTH OF BLACK MOUNTAINS...OTHERS WERE IN TRANSYLVANIA AND HAYWOOD COUNTIES. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. SOME OF THE SHOWERS MAY DEVELOP INTO QUITE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS BEFORE THEY TAPER OFF LATER THIS EVENING. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. MOUNTAIN RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON AND BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS. REU
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 2:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
NCZ010-012-101900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 204 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 1990 AT 155 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN HAYWOOD..BUNCOMBE AND TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES OF WESERN NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR THE BUNCOMBE HAYWOOD COUNTY LINE SOUTH OF CANTON. THEY WERE MOVING VERY LITTLE..POSSIBLY DRIFTING SLOWLY EAST. THESE STORMS CONTAIN A LOT OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..REMAIN INSIDE OR MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. THE STORMS MAY ALSO CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. BECAUSE OF THEIR SLOW MOVEMENT FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS POSSIBLE. TH,E SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
NCZ010-012-013-102020- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 325 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 1990 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE REPORTED ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AT 315 THIS AFTERNOON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR TRYON IN POLK COUNTY AND OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE IN JACKSON AND SWAIN COUNTIES. ONE HALF INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND CULLOWHEE AND PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY RADIO STATION WBHN IN BRYSON CITY. THE STONG STORMS CONTAINED A LOT OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. HM
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:45 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
SCZ001>004-102030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 345 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ALONG THE SOUTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS... AT 335 PM SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...FROM NEAR LAKE KEOWEE...TO TRAVELERS REST...TO INMAN... TO CHESNEE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS NOTED NEAR GREER AND LYMAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS APPEAR TO BE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST ...MAYBE 5 TO 10 MILES AN HOUR. A WIND GUST OF 35 MILES AN HOUR WAS MEASURED AT THE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG AIRPORT AT 336 PM. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BRING LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WIND...AND POSSIBLE HAIL...DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS...TO CHEROKEE... SPARTANBURG...GREENVILLE...AND ANDERSON COUNTIES. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 4:16 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
SCZ001>004-102110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 415 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED OVER UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 410 PM SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER PORTIONS OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY EXTENDING INTO WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY. ANOTHER AREA OF STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS FROM CENTRAL OCONEE COUNTY NEAR WALHALLA TO CLEMSON IN SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTY. THE AREAS OF HEAVIEST RAIN WERE NEAR MOORE...FROM CHESNEE TO COWPENS...AND FROM WESTMINSTER TO CLEMSON. THESE STORMS WERE DRIFTING VERY SLOWLY TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST. A WIND GUST OF 38 MILES AN HOUR WAS MEASURED AT THE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG AIRPORT AT 346 PM EDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BRING INTENSE LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS... GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS. PEOPLE NEAR THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPING IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME DURING THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. ROBBINS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 60 min |
| Jul 10, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 49 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.