Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 567
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 4, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1997, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 88 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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.
Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Hawkins | 69 min |
| Jul 4, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Yancey | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Floyd, Pulaski | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 7:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MRX | Hawkins | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 65 min |
| Jul 4, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Greene | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Rutherford | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Henry, City of Martinsville | 63 min |
| Jul 4, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 54 min |
| Jul 4, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 49 min |
| Jul 4, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Stokes | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 45 min |
| Jul 4, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Guilford | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jul 4, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 39 min |
| Jul 4, 11:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 43 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon, Swain | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hardin and 10 more | 6 hr |
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.