Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 198, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 1:25 PM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina; York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 19, 1998, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1998, 2:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gaston County, NC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1125 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 30 min |
| Jun 19, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 55 min |
| Jun 19, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Union | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 23 min |
| Jun 19, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 12:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 32 min |
| Jun 19, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.