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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 21, 1998Buncombe County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1998, 3:18 PM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports 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: Jul 21, 1998, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 1998, 4:05 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Buncombe County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jul 21, 3:18 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Swannanoa, NC
Jul 21, 4:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Swannanoa, 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 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 Jul 21, 2:28 PM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:28 PM EDT, 50 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
Jul 20, 8:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	47 min
Jul 20, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	49 min
Jul 20, 9:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	3 hr
Jul 20, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	65 min
Jul 21, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	32 min
Jul 21, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	49 min
Jul 20, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	York	49 min
Jul 20, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	51 min
Jul 20, 9:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	48 min
Jul 20, 9:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	65 min
Jul 20, 10:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	33 min
Jul 20, 10:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	York	65 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.