Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1998, 1:53 PM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 27, 1998, 1:53 PM EDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1998, 2:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burke County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 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 27, 1:02 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:02 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
102 PM EDT WED MAY 27 1998
ALL: LIKELY POPS THIS EVENG...PRECIP SHUD END BY MIDNITE.
ERLY AM FOG THU..OTHERWISE FAIR. CURNT FCSTS OK.
SPC PLANS TO BOX US..SO THIS OUT ERLY. MDLS SUSPECT TDY GIVEN LESS
THAN FULL COVERAGE BUT NGM AGREES WITH DATA-DEPLETED ETA THAT
SHORTWAVE COMES ACROSS THIS EVENG...TSTMS SHUD BE WIDESPREAD AND
POTENTIAL CERTAINLY EXISTS FOR DANGEROUS DOWNBURSTS. KGSP 88-D SHOWS
RAPID DEVELOPMENT IN WRN CAROLINAS AND NE GA. FOR TNT AND
TMRW...DOWNSLOPE FLO BEHIND SHORTWAVE SHOULD DRY US OUT AND PROVIDE
FAIR WEATHER. AT 48 HRS...MDLS SUGST RIDGING FIRMLY ESTABLISHED
ALNG EAST COAST...WITH BNDRY LYR FLO BACKING TO SW AGAIN.
AVL 56/77/54/80 6/2/0/0
CLT 65/86/62/88 6/1/0/0
GSP 66/85/63/88 6/1/0/0
BURRUSIn the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 11:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-272100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1100 AM EDT WED MAY 27 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY IN EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA...AND THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL CAROLINAS... EXAMINATION OF UPPER AIR DATA FROM THIS MORNING INDICATES THAT SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE...WITH SEVERAL PARAMETERS INDICATING POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT DAMAGING WIND STORMS AND LARGE HAIL. LATE THIS MORNING...A BOUNDARY SEPARATING VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR TO THE SOUTH...FROM SLIGHTLY DRIER AND COOLER TO THE NORTH...STRETCHED FROM WEST OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA...TO BETWEEN ANDERSON AND GREENVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA...TO JUST SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA. THIS BOUNDARY MAY BECOME THE FOCUS FOR SOME OF THE STRONGEST OR SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP ANYWHERE IN THE AREA...HOWEVER. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ACTIVATION FOR SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. NO SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED YET. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS...WATCHES...OR WARNINGS ON THIS THREAT. JONES
Special weather statement, May 27, 11:00 AM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-272100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1100 AM EDT WED MAY 27 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY IN EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA...AND THE WESTERN AND CENTRAL CAROLINAS... EXAMINATION OF UPPER AIR DATA FROM THIS MORNING INDICATES THAT SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME VERY UNSTABLE...WITH SEVERAL PARAMETERS INDICATING POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT DAMAGING WIND STORMS AND LARGE HAIL. LATE THIS MORNING...A BOUNDARY SEPARATING VERY WARM AND MOIST AIR TO THE SOUTH...FROM SLIGHTLY DRIER AND COOLER TO THE NORTH...STRETCHED FROM WEST OF ANDERSON SOUTH CAROLINA...TO BETWEEN ANDERSON AND GREENVILLE SOUTH CAROLINA...TO JUST SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA. THIS BOUNDARY MAY BECOME THE FOCUS FOR SOME OF THE STRONGEST OR SEVERE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP ANYWHERE IN THE AREA...HOWEVER. SPOTTER GROUPS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS SHOULD PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ACTIVATION FOR SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. NO SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED YET. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS...WATCHES...OR WARNINGS ON THIS THREAT. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 33 min |
| May 27, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 38 min |
| May 27, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 44 min |
| May 27, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 44 min |
| May 27, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 31 min |
| May 27, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 31 min |
| May 27, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell, Mecklenburg | 35 min |
| May 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 65 min |
| May 27, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 46 min |
| May 27, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 33 min |
| May 27, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 48 min |
| May 27, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 47 min |
| May 27, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 48 min |
| May 27, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 31 min |
| May 27, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 27 min |
| May 27, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 66 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.