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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 20, 1998Davie County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1998, 2:04 PM EST for Davie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 1998, 2:04 PM EST (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Mar 20, 1998, 2:30 PM EST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Davie County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 20, 2:15 PM ESTHail 1.75Farmington, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 20, 1:00 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 7:50 AM ESTTornado WarningGSPJackson, Macon55 min
Mar 20, 8:49 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPJackson3 hr
Mar 20, 2:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg28 min
Mar 20, 2:31 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPMecklenburg29 min
Mar 20, 2:44 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus46 min
Mar 20, 1:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPYork32 min
Mar 20, 6:51 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHabersham, Rabun39 min
Mar 20, 7:15 AM ESTTornado WarningGSPRabun30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.