Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 1990, 5:20 PM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 55 min. 3 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
- Apr 28, 1990, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1990, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenville County, SC
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 28, 5:40 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Greenville, SC | |
| Apr 28, 5:53 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Greenville, SC | |
| Apr 28, 6:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Greenville, SC |
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
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGSP 282122
TORGSP
SCC045-282215-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
520 PM EDT SAT APR 28 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
...SOUTHERN GREENVILLE
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS ANDERSON COUNTY HAS CONTINUED TO
PRODUCE REPORTS OF VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGE FROM EITHER HIGH WINDS
OR TORNADOES. THE DAMAGE SEEMS TO BE OCCURRING IN THE PORTION OF THE
STORM WHICH TYPICALLY PRODUCES TORNADOES.
THE PROJECTED PATH OF THIS PART OF THE STORM IS OVER OR NEAR...
WILLIAMSTON BY 525 PM...FORK SHOALS...530 PM...GOLDEN STRIP AREA 540
TO 545 PM.
LARGE HAIL IS OCCURRING IN A LARGE AREA OF THE STORM
PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF
BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCH.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 28, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
SCZ001>004-282030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 315 PM EDT SAT APR 28 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM FOR ALL THE UPSTATE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 315 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR FONTANA LAKE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...TO LAKE LANIER IN NOTHERN GEORGIA THEN TO JUST EAST OF ATLANTA. THE WEATHER SERVICE HAD SEVERAL REPORTS OF HAIL WITH THESE STROMS AS THEY PASSED ACROSS WESTERN GEORGIA. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVIMG TO THE EAST ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY MOVE INTO THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA BETWEEN 330 AND 400 PM EDT. PLEASE MONTOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FREQUENTLY FOR THE LATEST BULLETINS OR WARNINGS. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REVIEW THE REPORTING PROCEDURES... AND REMAIN ACTIVE UNTIL THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER PASSES. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 3:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
NCZ009-010-011-012-282130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 335 PM EDT SAT APR 28 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7PM FOR THE CENTRAL... SOUTHERN AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 330 PM THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED FROM CHEROKEE TO GRAHAM TO THE EXTREME WESTERN TIP OF SWAIN COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL TAKE THESE STORMS NEAR BRYSON CITY IN SWAIN COUNTY BEFORE MOVING INTO SEVIER COUNTY TENNESSEE. A HAILSTORM WAS REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM ON HANGING DOG MOUNTAIN JUST NORTHWEST OF MURPHY AND AT WKRK RADIO IN MURPHY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE REPORTED IN ROBBINSVILLE. NO WIND DAMAGE OR LARGE HAIL WAS REPORTED. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT. REMEMBER...THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. CC
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
SCZ001>004-282100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 405 PM EDT SAT APR 28 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO OCONEE COUNTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA... ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM FOR ALL THE UPSTATE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 400 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA FROM NEAR CLAYTON TO ATHENS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO OCONEE COUNTY WITHIN A FEW MINUTES. HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE STROMS. IF WARNINGS SHOULD BE ISSUED FOR THESE STORMS THERE MAY BE ONLY A FEW MINUTES TO TAKE ACTION. PLEASE MONTOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FREQUENTLY FOR THE LATEST BULLETINS OR WARNINGS. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:22 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
SCZ001>004-282100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 420 PM EDT SAT APR 28 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM FOR ALL THE UPSTATE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA WILL MOVE NORTHEAST INTO THE SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE WITHIN AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED DAMAGE IN NORTHERN GEORGIA. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN THE ATHENS GEORGIA VICINITY AROUND 4 PM. PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTRORMS DURING THE NEXT TWO TO THREE HOURS WITH POSSIBLE STRONG GUSTY WIND AND HAIL. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REMAIN ALERT UNTIL THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER PASSES. MUSGROVE
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 4:31 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
SCZ001>004-282115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 430 PM EDT SAT APR 28 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 900 PM FOR ALL THE UPSTATE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD ANDERSON COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA HAS PRODUCED ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF HAIL REPORTS WITH THIS STORM. A WARNING MAY BECOME NECESSARY FOR ANDERSON COUNTY SHORTLY. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WAJ
Local storm report, Apr 28, 5:16 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 515 PM EST SAT APR 28 1990 505 PM SILO BLOWN DOWN 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ANDERSON AT INTERSECTION OF SC 187 AND US 29. 512 PM GOLFBALL HAIL WESTERN SECTIONS ANDERSON. DAMAGE IS OCCURRING BACK EDGE OF STORM WHICH INDICATES POSSIBLE TORNADO. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson | 68 min |
| Apr 28, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Laurens | 69 min |
| Apr 28, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 58 min |
| Apr 28, 6:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 6:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 67 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.