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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 10, 1998Catawba County, Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 7:40 AM EDT for Catawba County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 10, 1998, 7:40 AM EDT (11:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1998, 8:15 AM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Catawba County, NC, Iredell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:39 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 10, 8:00 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Statesville, 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 nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 660 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 501 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 10, 2:22 AM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:22 AM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
222 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998

ALL: WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON FOG TRENDS THIS AM...OTHRWS...CHC
     POPS TDY...HIER NC PORTION. CHC POPS ALL AROUND FOR EVNG AND
     PERHAPS PREDAWN THU...THEN 40-50 POPS CWA WIDE FOR THU

FRONT TO STAY IN VCNTY CWA THIS PKG...LUKS ON SFC ANALYSIS THAT A
BIT OF A SRN PUSH OF FEATURE WAS MADE TNT. MDLS SUGST FRONT TO
RETREAT TO EXTREME NRN PORTIONS CWA BY THIS AFTN. NO DISCERNIBLE
SFC FEATURES ALNG FRONT TO ACT AS EXTRA FORCING MECHANISM...AND
DOWNSLOPE FLO SHUD LIMIT CONVECTION UNTIL LATE IN AFTN PD; LOW LVL
MOISTR RMNS HIGH EVEN WITH DOWNSLOPE AND SLIGHT COOLING ALF CUD
STEEPEN LAPSE RATES ENUF TO SUPPORT SOME THUNDR. MAY NEED TO WATCH OUT
FOR MCS DVLPNT UPSTREAM AND EFFECTS ON CWA FOR LATE TNT; SOME LOW LVL
PVA SHWN ON GRIDS NC PORTION CWA BY THU AM.

THURSDAY...INTERESTING. EVEN BETTER DYNAMICS AND WELL-DEFINED SFC
WAVE ON FRONT...YET WE HAVE WARMING TEMPS ALF THAT MAY PROVIDE CAP.
BASED ON GRID DATA...WUD THINK MTNS HAVE BEST CHC CONVECTION ALTHO
WITH FRONT IN VCNTY THUNDR POSBL JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE AS WITNESSED
LAST WEEK.

AVL  81/62/84  4/3/5
CLT  87/67/86  4/3/5
GSP  88/69/87  3/3/4

BURRUS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:35 AM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-101630-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
535 AM EDT WED JUN 10 1998

...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE TODAY...

A STATIONARY FRONT ACROSS THE CAROLINAS INTO THE OHIO VALLEY WILL
CAUSE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. MOISTURE WILL BE
AVAILABLE TO GENERATE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND
EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...
PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

RESIDENTS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA
SHOULD STAY INFORMED OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION TODAY BY
LISTENING TO LOCAL RADIO OR TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO.

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY.

ROBBINS/BURRUS

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	34 min
Jun 10, 7:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander	29 min
Jun 10, 7:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	46 min
Jun 10, 9:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	28 min
Jun 10, 9:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	27 min
Jun 10, 9:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	43 min
Jun 10, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.