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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 27, 1996Haywood County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 9:16 PM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 27, 1996, 9:16 PM EDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Haywood County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 9:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Maggie Vly, NC

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 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 280 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: 628 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 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.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 27, 2:04 PM EDT, 7 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:04 PM EDT, 7 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 27, 4:31 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 9:10 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
908 PM EDT MON MAY 27 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
855 PM     CHEROKEE                  NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/27/96   JACKSON                        TREES DOWN ACROSS ROAD IN
                                          CHEROKEE. REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY 911.

BWM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Macon	46 min
May 27, 10:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	39 min
May 27, 11:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Catawba, Iredell	52 min
May 27, 11:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Lincoln	62 min
May 27, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	46 min
May 27, 11:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	56 min
May 27, 9:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	47 min
May 27, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	53 min
May 27, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens, Spartanburg	43 min
May 27, 11:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	48 min
May 27, 10:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Stephens	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996 Every 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.