Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 1998, 3:19 PM EDT for Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 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 19, 1998, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 1998, 3:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 408 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 462 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
224 WFUS1 KGSP 191921 TORGSP NCC109-191950- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 319 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 350 PM EDT * AT 318 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LINCOLNTON... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... BETWEEN LOWESVILLE AND IRON STATION BY 325 NEAR TRIANGLE BY 330 PM IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. JAT
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 19, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC
158 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998
ALL: DECREASING CLOUDS TONIGHT. MOSTLY SUNNY MON. MOSTLY CLEAR
MON NIGHT. INCREASING CLOUDS TUE WITH SLIGHT CHANCE SHOWERS
NC MOUNTAINS. TEMPERATURES/POPS FWC/FAN COMPROMISE.
DRIER AIRMASS TO MOVE ACROSS AREA OVERNIGHT. SOME MOISTURE RECOVERY
TAKES PLACE LATE MON AS A WEAK IMPULSE APPROACHES. A SHORTWAVE
APPROACHES LATE TUE IN NW FLOW ACCOMPANIED BY MORE SUBSTANTIAL
MOISTURE. PRECIPITAITON WITH SYSTEM SHOULD JUST REACH MOUNTAINS
LATE TUE AFTERNOON.
AVL 42/64/40/64 1002
CLT 50/71/48/70 100-
GSP 45/70/45/68 -001
JATIn the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 19, 3:11 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
311 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
235 PM WATERLOO SC TORNADO
04/19/98 LAURENS FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED
TORNADO ON THE GROUND ON
INDIAN MOUND ROAD NEAR
LAURENS. A LARGE TREE WAS
REPORTED ON A HOUSE ON
TIDE QUARTER ROAD NEAR
WATERLOO.
NEALLocal storm report, Apr 19, 3:11 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
311 PM EDT SUN APR 19 1998
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
235 PM WATERLOO SC TORNADO
04/19/98 LAURENS FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED
TORNADO ON THE GROUND ON
INDIAN MOUND ROAD NEAR
LAURENS. A LARGE TREE WAS
REPORTED ON A HOUSE ON
TIDE QUARTER ROAD NEAR
WATERLOO.
NEALThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 10:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 12:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson | 3 hr |
| Apr 19, 3:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 17 min |
| Apr 19, 3:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 29 min |
| Apr 19, 4:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 4:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 32 min |
| Apr 19, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.