Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 27, 1999McDowell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1999, 4:49 PM EDT for McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
Apr 27, 1999, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 1999, 5:40 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County McDowell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Apr 27, 5:37 PM EDTHail 0.75Marion, 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 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
Apr 27, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPIredell46 min
Apr 27, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville49 min
Apr 27, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg49 min
Apr 27, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.