Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 9:52 PM EDT for Anderson County, Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 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 27, 1996, 9:52 PM EDT (01:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1996, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 10:29 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Piedmont, SC | |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Greenville, SC | |
| May 27, 10:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Simpsonville, 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 236 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.
- 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
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, 9:36 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 9:36 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 935 PM EDT MON MAY 27 1996 CAE/FFC: RAISE POPS...MENTION OVERNIGHT FOG. RAH: SEE DISCUSSION. DISC: 00Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS OUTFLOW BOUNDARY MOVING THROUGH WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHERN GEORGIA...EVENTUALLY INTO SOUTH CARLOLINA. BELIEVE HIGHER POPS ARE NECESSARY FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEASTERN GEORGIA. ADAP INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE CONVERGENCE CHARTS SHOW FAVORABLE CONDITIONS TO EXIST FOR FURTHER THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. THIS COMBINED WITH A THUNDERSTORM MERGER OVER GEORGIA SHOULD MAINTAIN CONVECTION ACROSS THE ABOVE MENTION AREA THROUGH 1 OR 2 AM. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF WW WAS ISSUED FOR EASTERN GEORGIA AND WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TO BE AFFECTED BY CURRENT CONVECTION THROUGH ABOUT 11 PM. THEN THIS AREA LOOKS TO BE IN THE CLEAR OVERNIGHT. MAY WANT CONSIDER LOWER POPS AFTER MIDNIGHT FOR THIS AREA...OTHERWISE CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS GOOD. KAJ
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 27, 4:31 PM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, May 27, 9:10 PM EDT, 42 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.
BWMThe 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, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 44 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, 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
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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.