Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1997, 7:11 AM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1997, 7:11 AM EDT (11:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1997, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 3, 2:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 212 AM EDT SAT MAY 3 1997 DISC: LOCAL AND REGIONAL RADAR TRENDS INDICATE CONVECTION CONTINUES TO TRAIN NORTHEAST INTO THE WESTERN HALF OF MY CWA. FIRST ROUND OF STORMS WEAKENED AS THEY ENCOUNTERED DRIER AIR ACRS THE UPSTATE...BUT DEWPOINTS CONT TO RISE WITH READINGS NOW AOA 60 WEST AND SOUTH OF GSP AND NEW CONVECTION IS GOING STRONG. WOULD GO WITH SELS OUTLOOK AND MENTION SVR PSBL FOR MY ENTIRE CWA. OF ADDITIONAL CONCERN IS HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL. LATEST SFC ANALYSIS INDCIATES SEVERAL OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ACRS NE GA AND THE UPSTATE AND I'M AFRAID CONVECTION MAY CONTINUE TO FOCUS IN THIS AREA THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. BEST DYNAMICS AND MSTR PROGGED TO BEGIN TO PUSH EAST BY ERLY AFTN SO LONG DURATION DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A PROBLEM...HWVR WE WL NEED TO MONITOR CONVECTIVE TRENDS THE NEXT CPL HOURS FOR PSBL FFA. FOR NOW I WUD MNTN HEAVY RAIN ALL AREAS. LOOKS LIKE PCPN WL CLEAR MY CWA BY 00Z. THE REST OF THE SHORT RANGE IS CHARACTERIZED BY INITIALLY STRONG NORTHWEST FLOW GIVING WAY TO HIGH PRESSURE. WITH DOWNSLOPE FLOW I WENT WITH THE WARMER FWC NUMBERS AWAY FROM THE NC MTNS...AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES. IN THE NC MTNS TEMPS WILL BE MUCH COOLER...AND WITH H8 TEMPS BLO 0C AND RH >90% MAY SEE SOME FLURRIES TNGT IN THE HIGHEST PEAKS. AVL 68/42/60 +00 CLT 75/50/69 +00 GSP 75/46/70 +00 JOHNSTONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 34 min |
| May 2, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.