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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 3, 1998Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1998, 11:14 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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
May 3, 1998, 11:14 PM EDT (03:14 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1998, 12:15 AM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:15 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1998-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1998-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 3, 10:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk64 min
May 3, 9:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee48 min
May 3, 9:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens63 min
May 3, 10:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville61 min
May 3, 11:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens46 min
May 3, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHabersham49 min
May 3, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPFranklin48 min
May 3, 10:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPElbert51 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.