Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 2:33 PM EDT for Burke County, McDowell County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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 24, 1998, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Burke County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 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 Jun 24, 1:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC 117 PM EDT WED JUN 24 1998 CAE/RAH/FFC: NO SIG CHGS MDLS IN AGREEMENT IN DROPPING S/WV ALONG FNT SIDE OF UPPER RIDGE TONITE. NOT MUCH ON SATL AT TIME WITH S/WV. ETA HAS S/WV MOVG JUST TO EAST OF OUR CWA BTWN 18-06Z. SOME WIDELY SCT TSTMS HAVE DEVELOPED THIS AFTN ACR EASTERN PART OF CWA IN NC...PRBLY AHEAD OF S/WV COMING ACROSS NC. HOWEVER THER IS NOT MUCH IN WAY OF MOISTURE OR 7MB VV. ONLY AREA WITH SOME....VERY SMALL CHC WOULD BE EXTREME EASTERN NC AND SC COUNTIES IN OUR CWA. WENT WITH FWC TEMPS OR A LITTE HIGHER BASED ON YSTDY TEMPS. NO POPS IN FCST WILL COVER ANY ISOLDED TSTM WITH NOWS AVL 64/92/64/90 0/0/0/0 CLT 77/97/76/98 0/0/0/0 GSP 70/98/70/97 0/0/0/0 PT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 23, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 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 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.