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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 1, 1987Greenville County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1987, 5:05 PM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 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: May 1, 1987, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 1987, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Greenville County, SC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 1, 5:10 PM EDT	Hail 1	Greenville, SC

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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 3:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 3:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 4:43 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC
445 PM EDT FRI MAY 1 1987

...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING OVER GREENVILLE COUNTY...

RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS OVER TRAVELERS REST AND
IN EXTREME NORTHEAST GREENVILLE COUNTY. ELESEWHERE THROUGHOUT THE UPSTATE
COUNTIES THUNDERSTORMS ARE SCATTERED  AND COVERAGE HAS INCREASED DURING
THE PAST HOUR.
PEA SIZE (1/4) INCH HAIL REPORTED WITH GREENVILLE STORMS

STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH

RESIDENTS SOULD BE ALERT FOR HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
INTENSE LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS.
OLIVER/GSP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk	56 min
May 1, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson	58 min
May 1, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	63 min
May 1, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	60 min
May 1, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

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.