Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1998, 2:18 PM EDT for Alexander County, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. 4 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
- Jun 16, 1998, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1998, 3:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alexander County, NC, Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 | Kings Creek, NC | |
| Jun 16, 2:20 PM EDT | Hail 2 | Kings Creek, NC | |
| Jun 16, 2:36 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Ellendale, NC | |
| Jun 16, 2:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Hiddenite, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
848 WFUS1 KGSP 161819 RRA TORGSP NCC003-027-161905- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 218 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ALEXANDER COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 305 PM EDT * AT 217 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF LENOIR... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LITTLE RIVER AT 237 PM TAYLORSVILLE AT 257 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 4:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 26 min |
| Jun 16, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 34 min |
| Jun 16, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 35 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.