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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 5, 1989Laurens County, Union County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1989, 5:39 PM EDT for Laurens County, Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 min. 2 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 5, 1989, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1989, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Laurens County, SC, Union 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
Jun 5, 6:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Laurens, SC
Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Union, 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 nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1390 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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, Jun 5, 2:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:04 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:15 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:17 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC
514 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989

513 PM EDT        WIND DAMAGE.  POWER LINES DOWN. SENECA AND WALHALLA
                  AREAS.  EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.

WAJ/GSP}

Local storm report, Jun 5, 5:27 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREER SC
525 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1989

516 PM EDT        SMALL TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN EASLEY IN
                  PICKENS COUNTY. SPOTTERS.

WAJ/GSP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	64 min
Jun 5, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	62 min
Jun 5, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	44 min
Jun 5, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	49 min
Jun 5, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Lincoln	44 min
Jun 5, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	55 min
Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	33 min
Jun 5, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	68 min
Jun 5, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	62 min
Jun 5, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	69 min
Jun 5, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	57 min
Jun 5, 5:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	46 min
Jun 5, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1989 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.