Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1998, 10:42 PM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 10:42 PM EDT (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iredell County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 Apr 16, 9:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 9:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC
915 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
CAE: CONCUR ON LIKELY POPS.
RAH: MENTION POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE E OF MOUNTAINS. DROP WINDY
MOUNTAINS.
FFC: NONE.
SOUNDING FROM KFFC HAD CAPE OF 1340 AND HELICITY OF 425. GSO A BIT
MORE TAME WITH CAPE 415 AND HELICITY 100. CURRENT ACTIVITY IN W
NC MADE MOST OF ITS ENVIRONMENT...AND EXPECT AREA ALONG AND S OF
I-40 TO BE CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING CONVECTION OF EQUAL OR GREATER
STRENGTH/ORGANIZATION. MOUNTAIN REPORTS INDICATE WINDS TO BE 10
KNOTS OR LESS...EXCEPT IN PRESENCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. TEMPERATURES
AND POPS APPEAR IN ORDER.
JATIn the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 16, 8:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
922 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
735 PM 2 NW ALMOND NC TORNADO
04/16/98 SWAIN WLOS-TV RELAYED UNCONFIRMED
REPORT AT GRAHAM LINE -
TREE DAMAGE
840 PM JUST N OF AVL AIRPORT NC 2.00 INCH HAIL
04/16/98 BUNCOMBE RELAYED BY WLOS-TV
AT HENDERSON COUNTY LINE
JONESLocal storm report, Apr 16, 9:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
922 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
735 PM 2 NW ALMOND NC TORNADO
04/16/98 SWAIN WLOS-TV RELAYED UNCONFIRMED
REPORT AT GRAHAM LINE -
TREE DAMAGE
840 PM JUST N OF AVL AIRPORT NC 2.00 INCH HAIL
04/16/98 BUNCOMBE RELAYED BY WLOS-TV
AT HENDERSON COUNTY LINE
JONESLocal storm report, Apr 16, 10:38 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1038 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1033 PM NEAR MAIDEN NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/16/98 CATAWBA AT LINCOLN COUNTY LINE
CHARLOTTE AREA SKYWARN
REPORT
JONESLocal storm report, Apr 16, 10:38 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1038 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
1033 PM NEAR MAIDEN NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
04/16/98 CATAWBA AT LINCOLN COUNTY LINE
CHARLOTTE AREA SKYWARN
REPORT
JONESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 8:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 33 min |
| Apr 17, 2:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 2:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 2:50 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Pickens | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 3:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 3:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 46 min |
| Apr 17, 5:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson | 2 hr |
| Apr 17, 6:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 44 min |
| Apr 17, 6:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 45 min |
| Apr 17, 7:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 2:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 31 min |
| Apr 17, 2:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stephens | 34 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.