Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 1991, 6:18 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 42 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 28, 1991, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 1991, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oconee County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Oconee, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 591 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 282240 RRA TORGSP SCC073-282300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 618 PM EDT SUN APR 28 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTY THE STEPHENS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA REPORTED A TORNADO HAD TOUCHED DOWN NEAR TOCCOA. WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF TOCCOA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. 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, 4:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SCZ001>004-282115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 420 PM EDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST COUNTIES OF UPSTATE CAROLINA UNTIL 11 PM EDT... ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROCHING THE UPSTATE... IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...OCONEE...PICKENS...GREENVILLE...LAURENS... SPARTANBURG...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE...AND GREENWOOD COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA. AT 415 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE UPSTATE BETWEEN 600 AND 700 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN UPESTATE SOUTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ALERT THIS EVENING FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. ROBBINS
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 5:19 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
SCZ001>004-282215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 518 PM EDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MOST COUNTIES OF UPSTATE CAROLINA UNTIL 11 PM EDT... ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROCHING NORTHWEST UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA THE WATCH AREA INCLUDES...OCONEE...PICKENS... GREENVILLE...LAURENS...SPARTANBURG...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE...AND GREENWOOD COUNTIES. AT 515 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN GEORGIA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EASTWARD AT ABOUT 35 TO 40 MPH AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF OCONEE AND ANDERSON COUNTIES BETWEEN 530 ANDq 630 PM EDT. PEOPLE IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ALERT THIS EVENING FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. ROBBINS
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 5:34 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
NCZ007-009-010-011-012-013-282330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 530 PM EDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ON THE INCREASE ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTHERN CHEROKEE AND SOUTHERN GRAHAM COUNTIES. ANOTHER AREA OF STRONG STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF BRYSON CITY IN SWAIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH. SOME OF THE THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING KILLS!! IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA..SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. > LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR FURTHER WSTATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. USSERY
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 6:09 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
NCZ007-009-010-011-012-013-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 610 PM EDT SUN APR 28 1991 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD DECREASED OVER CHEROKEE AND GRAHAM COUNTIES. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS NEAR BRYSON CITY IN SWAIN COUNTY. AT THIS TIME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WERE ALSO MOVING ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA GEORGIA BORDER ACROSS CLAY AND MACON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. SOME OF THE THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING KILLS!! IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA..SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. > STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION STATION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FPR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS IF CONDITION WARRANT. USSERY
Special weather statement, Apr 28, 6:14 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
NCZ007-009-010-011-012-013-280000-
...CORRECTION FOR WORDING...
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
613 PM EDT SUN APR 28 1991
...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
AT 600 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWER AND
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAD DECREASED OVER CHEROKEE AND GRAHAM COUNTIES.
HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS NEAR BRYSON CITY IN SWAIN COUNTY. AT THIS TIME THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY WERE ALSO MOVING ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA GEORGIA BORDER ACROSS
CLAY AND MACON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
SOME OF THE THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME
SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING KILLS!! IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES YOUR AREA..SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
>
STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION STATION OR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FPR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS IF CONDITION WARRANT.
USSERYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee | 64 min |
| Apr 28, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens | 58 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.