Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1992, 8:52 PM EDT for Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1992, 8:52 PM EDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1992, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 1665 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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, Apr 24, 5:06 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
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NCZ009-010-011-012-250030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 730 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS.. NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND MADISON COUNTY OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 1100PM... AT 720 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NORTH OF FRANKLIN IN MACON COUNTY AND NORTH OF MURPHY IN CHEROKEE COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. OTHER VERY STRONG STORMS WERE IN EASTERN TENNESSEE NEAR KNOXVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN CHEROKEE COUNTY AT AROUND 645PM FROM AN EARLIER STORM. THE STRONG STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL..STRONG WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. HM
Local storm report, Apr 24, 8:16 PM EDT, 36 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA
815 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1992
650 PM EDT...WKRK REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN DOWNTOWN MURPHY IN
CHEROKEE COUNTY.
744 PM EDT...SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL NEAR GREEN
MOUNTAIN IN YANCEY COUNTY.
744 PM EDT...SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL EAST OF PENLAND
IN MITCHELL COUNTY.
EJCSpecial weather statement, Apr 24, 8:29 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-250200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 825 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHERN TIER OF THE UPSTATE... AT 820 PM SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF NORTH CAROLINA NEAR THE SOUTH CAROLINA BORDER. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CAESERS HEAD SC MOVING EASTWARD. REPORTS OF MARBLE TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN PARTS OF TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING WITH THESE STORMS AND WERE MOVING EASTWARD AT AROUND 30 TO 40 MPH. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE TOWARD NORTHERN AREAS OF THE UPSTATE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER >RADIO...TV...OR RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMNETS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LEFKOF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stanly | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Montgomery | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 48 min |
| Apr 24, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Stanly | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anson | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.