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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 23, 1998Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1998, 10:14 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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 23, 1998, 10:14 PM EDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1998, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Spartanburg County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 23, 3:09 PM EDT, 7 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:09 PM EDT, 7 hours 5 minutes before

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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 24, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell, Rutherford	42 min
Jun 24, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	32 min
Jun 24, 5:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Transylvania	2 hr
Jun 24, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	45 min
Jun 24, 7:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson	31 min
Jun 24, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	50 min
Jun 24, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	50 min
Jun 24, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.