Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 1998, 2:44 PM EST for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 20, 1998, 2:44 PM EST (19:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 1998, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cabarrus County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 3:00 PM EST | Hail 1 | Harrisburg, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 234 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSP 201943 RRA TORGSP NCC025-202030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 244 PM EST FRI MAR 20 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN CABARRUS COUNTY AT 238 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO MOVING THROUGH EASTERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY NEAR MINT HILL...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF CHARLOTTE...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST TOWARD THE AREA AROUND AND NORTH OF MIDLAND. THE STORM COULD REACH THE CONCORD AREA BY 3 PM. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTIONx TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A DITCH. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 7:50 AM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 55 min |
| Mar 20, 8:49 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 26 min |
| Mar 20, 2:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 28 min |
| Mar 20, 2:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 29 min |
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.