Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1997, 5:01 PM EDT for Graham County, Swain County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 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
- Jun 14, 1997, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Graham County, NC, Swain County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 1780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 Jun 14, 1:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 1:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC 155 PM EDT SAT JUN 14 1997 .FCST TRENDS LOOK GOOD MORE SHOWRS FORMING EASTRN TN AHEAD OF NEXT AND HOPEFULLY LAST S/W WITH THIS SYSTEM BEFORE IT MOVES ACROSS THIS CWA THIS EVENING AND TO SC COAST BY MORNING. VRY STRNG UPR DIVG WITH GOOD MOIST COVG BELOW ADVECTING INTO AREA LATE THIS ATN AND THIS EVENING. SHOULD PROVIDE PLENTIFUL LIFT FOR STRNG TSTMS AND SPOTTY HVY RAINS. EXPCT GENERAL RAIN AREA WITH EMBEDDED CONVCTN BEHIND LEADING TSTM BAND LATE EVENING WHICH SHLD DECREASE BY ERLY MORNING HRS. WINDS BEHIND SYSTEM SHLD TURN NW FOR WHILE AND THEN TO NE WHICH COULD SLOW SCOURING OUT LOW LVL MOISTURE AFTR PASSAGE. WITH MAINLY SUNNY SKIES SUNDAY TEMPS SHLD WARM BUT NE FLOW SHLD KEEP MAX TEMPS CLOSE TO GUIDANCE..RATHER THAN ABOVE AS IS TYPICAL WITH POST FRNTL NW FLOW. SINCE THIS HAS BEEN THE SEASON FOR WEDGING...WILL HAVE TO CONSIDER SOME UPSLOPE LOW CLDS FORMING LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND INTO MONDAY. ALSO FIND MODELS VEERING TO SOUTH WIND QUESTIONABLE MONDY AS MODELS ALWAYS TRY TO RUSH THIS. GSP 63/81/62/81 6/1/0/0 CLT 65/81/64/81 7/1/0/0 AVL 60/76/57/77 6/1/0/0 NEAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 67 min |
| Jun 13, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jun 14, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 47 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.