Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1992, 9:42 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1992, 9:42 PM EDT (01:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1992, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLT 250143 SVRCLT NCC025-119-250230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 942 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...CABARRUS COUNTY...MECKLENBURG COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 940 PM DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTERME NORTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY EAST INTO NORTHERN CABARRUS COUNTY. THE POSITION OF THESE STORMS WERE FROM CORNELIUS SOUTHEAST TO CONCORD. BOATERS ON LAKE NORMAN SHOULD GO TO HARBOR IMMEDIATELY. MOVEMENT WASV TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. RNM
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, 7:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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, 1 hour 26 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, 1 hour 13 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
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 8:59 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
NCZ007-009-010-011-012-013-250145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 900 PM EDT FRI APR 25 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS.. NORTHERN FOOTHILLS AND MADISON COUNTY OF THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 1100PM... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. INTENSE LIGHTNING WAS REPORTED BY A SKYWARN SPOTTER IN YANCEY COUNTY. SOME STREET FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN MITCHELL COUNTY AS A STORM MOVED THROUGH THAT COUNTY. THE STRONG STORMS MAY PROCUCE HAIL..STRONG WINDS..HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. HM
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 9:15 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
NCZ008-250300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 915 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHERN PIEDMONT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE NORTHERN PIEDMONT...EAST OF GREENSBORO...SPREADING SOUTHWEST THROUGH NORTHERN STANLY COUNTY INTO EASTERN CABARRUS COUNTY. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE FROM NORTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY WEST THROUGH LINCOLN...GASTON AND CLEVELAND COUNTY INTO THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS. ALL MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 40 MPH. INTENSE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTING WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL MAY BE EXPECTED FROM CONCORD TO ALBEMARLE BEFORE 930 THIS EVENING. ANYONE WITHIN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE AWARE OF SUDDEN THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO GO QUICKLY TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF WEATHER RELATED DA)MAGES TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO DIRECT THAT REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1100 PM OR SOONER IF CONDITIONS WORSEN OR SOME WEATHER DAMAGES ARE REPORTED. RNM
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 9:25 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-250230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 925 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE UPSTATE... AT 920 THIS EVENING SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING FROM WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHERN GEORGIA INTO THE UPSTATE. ONE STORM PRODUCED PEA-SIZE HAIL IN NORTH GREENVILLE COUNTY. OTHER STORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTH GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. THEY WERE WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE UPSTATE LATER THIS EVENING. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO THE UPSTATE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV...OR RADIO STATIONS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS ANCD 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, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon | 38 min |
| 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, 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 |
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.