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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 19, 1992Union County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 2:29 PM EST for Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 19, 1992, 2:29 PM EST (19:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 1992, 3:15 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Union County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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

Local storm report, Mar 19, 12:49 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1248 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992

DATE/TIME

1245 PM    1 INCH HAIL COVERING GROUND WHITE HORSE RD/HIGHWAY 81
           CITY OF GREENVILLE.

JONES

Special weather statement, Mar 19, 12:50 PM EST, 1 hour 39 minutes before

NCZ008-007-191950-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
1250 EST THU MAR 19 1992

... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM FOR
MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTIES.  THIS WATCH
INCLUDES ... BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO CLEVELAND COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA
AND CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

AT 1245 PM EST ... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN CHARLOTTE SHOWED
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN COVERING MUCH OF THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH
CAROLINA AND NORTHWESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA.  HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WAS
INDICATED JUST NORTHWEST OF ASHEVILLE NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHWEST OF
GREER SOUTH CAROLINA.  ALL OF THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH.  THIS WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF
PRECIPITATION THAT EXTENDED FROM SOUTHERN OHIO INTO NORTHERN ALABAMA.
THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN
FOOTHILLS OF nORTH CAROLINA BEFORE 130 PM AND ACROSS RUTHERFORD INTO
CLEVELAND COUNTY ALSO IN NORTH CAROLINA BEFORE 2 PM.  IN SOUTH
CAROLINA THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS SPARTANBURG AND INTO
CHEROKEE COUNTY BEFORE 2 PM.

AT 1250 PM ... NO SEVERE WEATHER HAD BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE.
HOWEVER THE SKYWARN AMATEUR RADIO NETWORK HAD BEEN ACTIVATED.
AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER ON THE
145.350 MHZ REPEATER.  THE ALTERNATE REPEATER IS 145.170 MHZ.

EYE WITNESS REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER ARE IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.  TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE ... CONTACT YOUR
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE
NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.

THE NEXT STATEMENT ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE ON THIS EVENT ZWILL BE AROUND
250 PM EST.

CLARK

Local storm report, Mar 19, 2:03 PM EST, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 19, 2:05 PM EST, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 19, 2:19 PM EST, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 19, 2:25 PM EST, 4 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 11:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Clay	60 min
Mar 19, 11:47 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Macon	58 min
Mar 19, 12:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham	55 min
Mar 19, 1:53 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Catawba	37 min
Mar 19, 2:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	43 min
Mar 19, 2:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	46 min
Mar 19, 3:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	38 min
Mar 19, 12:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	32 min
Mar 19, 12:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	41 min
Mar 19, 1:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson	62 min
Mar 19, 1:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	61 min
Mar 19, 1:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	68 min
Mar 19, 2:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.