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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 25, 1996Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1996, 9:58 PM EDT for Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 47 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 25, 1996, 9:58 PM EDT (01:58 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1996, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Rabun County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 25, 10:20 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Satolah, GA

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 321 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1961 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1961 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson50 min
May 26, 1:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Pickens66 min
May 26, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee46 min
May 26, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee, Pickens48 min
May 26, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson54 min
May 26, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville50 min
May 26, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRabun40 min
May 26, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHabersham, Stephens43 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.