WX-TOR 8 Jan 1998

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 00:22:44 -0600
From: Charley Kline <kline@UX2.CSO.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Tornado Warning -080022 (AUTOMATIC)

ZCZC DD+ 41833
WFUS1 KGSP 080621
TORGSP
NCC119-080700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
119 AM EST THU JAN 8 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

...MECKLENBURG COUNTY

WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A TORNADO MOVING INTO MECKLENBURG COUNTY NEAR
PINEVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL
AFFECT MOST OF THE EASTERN SUBURBS OF CHARLOTTE BETWEEN 140 AM
AND 215 AM.

TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE 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.

SAB

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