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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 26, 1996Oconee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 4:14 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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
May 26, 1996, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Oconee County, SC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 26, 4:20 PM EDTHail 0.75Walhalla, SC
May 26, 4:26 PM EDTHail 0.75Westminster, SC
May 26, 4:45 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Walhalla, 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1141 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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, 4:57 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 25, 9:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRabun47 min
May 26, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRabun40 min
May 26, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHabersham, Stephens43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.