Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 29, 1999, 7:15 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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
- Sep 29, 1999, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 1999, 7:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cabarrus County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 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 292316 RRA TORGSP NCC025-292350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 715 PM EDT WED SEP 29 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME EASTERN CABARRUS COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 750 PM EDT * AT 714 PM...AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONCORD OR NEAR GEORGEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TORNADOES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES ARE SOMETIMES HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER NOW...DO NOT TRY TO WAIT ON THE STORM AND DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN IT. $$ MOYER
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 Sep 29, 2:06 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 29, 2:06 PM EDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 206 PM EDT WED SEP 29 1999 SURFACE FRONT AND STRONG UPPER TROF MAKING NICE PROGRESSION EASTWARD. STLT...RADAR AND AVAILABLE FORECAST MODELS SHOW THAT BEST DYNAMICS WILL REMAIN N OF FORECAST AREA. HOWEVER...SOME STRONG CONVECTION IS STILL EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. EFFICIENT RAIN PRODUCING CELLS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH INCREASING PRESSURE GRADIENT ARE MAIN FORECAST ISSUES FOR TONIGHTS PACKAGE. WILL GO WITH WIND ADVISORY FOR MOUNTAINS INTO NC FOOTHILLS AND A LAKE WIND ADVISORY MOST OTHER ZONES TONIGHT INTO THU. ALTHOUGH SOME HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED...WIDESPREAD PROBLEMS ARE NOT. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR RADAR...RAIN/RIVER GAUGE AND SPOTTER NETWORK FOR POTENTIAL RUNOFF PROBLEMS. WITH MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT...EXPECT UPPER TROF TO BE THROUGH BULK OF CWA BY MIDNIGHT WITH WINDS PICKING UP QUICKLY AND SKIES CLEARING RAPIDLY. AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER AREA LATE THU AND INTO THE WEEKEND...DEWPOINTS DROP OFF INTO 40S AND EVEN SOME MID 30S. AVL 53/67/39/69 +00 CLT 60/75/50/74 +00 GSP 58/74/50/73 +00 .GSP...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR MOUNTAINS AND SOME NC FOOTHILLS. RB
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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.