Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 1992, 10:20 PM EST for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 1992, 10:20 PM EST (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 1992, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 760 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 85 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 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 KCLT 110320 TORCLT NCC119-110400- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 1020 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EST FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...MECKLENBURG COUNTY AT 1015 PM EST LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IM MECKLENBURG COUNTY REPORTED A TORNADO IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY ... SOUTH OF THE AIRPORT NEAR THE STEELECREEK AREA. INJURIES WERE REPORTED WITH THIS TORNADO NEAR MOSS ROAD OFF OF HIGHWAY 49. TAKE COVER NOW. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO A 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. MATT
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, Mar 10, 7:49 PM EST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-110145- BULLETIN SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 747 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES UPSTATE UNTIL 1000 PM EST... AT 740 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING STRONGER IN PART OF THE UPSTATE. THE RADAR PATTERN SUGGESTED THAT A SMALL LOW PRESSURE CENTER COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE LINE OF STORMS. STRONG STORMS...WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS QUITE LIKELY...WILL BE MOVING INTO THE HONEA PATH...WILLIAMSTON...GREENVILLE...AND NEARBY AREAS BEFORE 815 PM. LATEST INFORMATION FROM UPPER AIR DATA STILL INDICATES VERY STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS COULD OCCUR RAPIDLY WITH LITTLE CHANCE FOR WARNING. AMATEUR RADIO FROM SLABTOWN IN NORTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY JUST REPORTED WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH...MEASURED. THAT STORM WOULD IMMEDIATELY APPROACH THE EASLEY/POWDERSVILLE AREA. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS. W. JONES/GSP
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 8:20 PM EST, 2 hours before
NCZ007-008-110220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 820 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 ... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST FOR MOST OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING NORTH CAROLINAS SOUTHERN PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS ... AS WELL AS A PORTION OF SOUTH CAROLINAS FOOTHILLS AND EASTERN PIEDMONT. AT 815 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLOTTE SHOWED A NEARLY SOLID AREA OF SHOWERS FROM BOONE NORTH CAROLINA EXTENDING SOUTH TO GREENVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA. SINCE 720 PM EST THE SHOWERS HAD STRENGTHENED AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE SOLID AREA OF SHOWERS. THE STRONGEST STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED ACROSS NORTH CAROLINAS FOOTHILLS ... WEST OF HICKORY AND LENOIR ... AND NORTH OF MORGANTON. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED IN WEST RUTHERFORDTON COUNTY. SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE ALSO DETECTED EAST OF MAXTON NORTH CAROLINA AND EXTENDED SOUTHWEST TO NEAR SUMTER SOUTH CAROLINA. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 920 PM EST OR EARLIER SHOULD CONDITIONS WORSEN. MATT
Special weather statement, Mar 10, 8:29 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
SCZ001-002-004-110230- BULLETIN SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 828 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH INCLUDES UPSTATE UNTIL 1000 PM EST... AT 815 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A NARROW...CURVED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM BLUE RIDGE TO GREER TO THE GSP AIRPORT TO FOUNTAIN INN AND THEN SOUTH THROUGH GREENWOOD. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WERE OCCURRING WITH THE LINE AND ALSO BEHIND IT. AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS REPORT WINDS IN THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE IN GUSTS AT MOST LOCATIONS THE LINE OF STORMS PASSES. A GUST TO ABOUT 55 MPH WAS JUST REPORTED 5 MILES EAST OF SIMPSONVILLE. THAT AREA OF HIGH WINDS WILL MOVE QUICKLY INTO THE REIDVILLE AREA OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY. THE LINE OF STORMS SEEMED TO BE ACCELERATING TO THE EAST...MOVING MUCH FASTER THAN EARLIER. THAT INDICATES THE CHANCES FOR DAMAGING WINDS COULD BE INCREASING OVER SPARTANBURG...UNION...LAURENS AND EVENTUALLY CHEROKEE COUNTIES. W. JONES/GSP
Local storm report, Mar 10, 9:05 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC
904 PM EST TUE MAR 11 1992
DATE/TIME
850 PM REIDVILLE AREA...SPARTANBURG COMMS REPORTS POWER LINES
DOWN.
855 PM SPARTANBURG COMMS REPORTpS TREES DOWN IN CITY.
JONESSpecial weather statement, Mar 10, 9:07 PM EST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
NCZ007-008-110307- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 907 PM EST TUE MAR 10 1992 ... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST FOR MOST OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INCLUDING NORTH CAROLINAS SOUTHERN PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS ... AS WELL AS A PORTION OF SOUTH CAROLINAS FOOTHILLS AND EASTERN PIEDMONT. AT 905 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLOTTE SHOWED A NEARLY SOLID LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE FROM NORTH WILKSBORO NORTH CAROLINA EXTENDING SOUTH ... TO HICKORY ... AND FARTHER SOUTH TO NEAR SHELBY IN CLEVELAND COUNTY. THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED INTO SOUTH CAROLINA ACROSS CHEROKEE COUNTY AND FARTHER SOUTH TO GREENWOOD. THE STRONGEST STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED ACROSS NORTH CAROLINAS FOOTHILLS ... WEST OF HICKORY AND LENOIR. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE LOCATED OVER ... NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWESTERN CLEVELAND CO&UNTY. ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 1000 PM EST OR EARLIER SHOULD CONDITIONS WORSEN. MATT
Local storm report, Mar 10, 9:25 PM EST, 55 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC 917 PM EST TUE MAR 11 1992 DATE/TIME 905 PM CONVERSE/COWPENS AREAS SPARTANBURG COUNTY TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. 907 PM WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY CANNONS CAMPGROUND TREES DOWN. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 10:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 10:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 52 min |
| Mar 10, 11:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Stanly | 27 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.