Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT for Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 29, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Union County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 6:54 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Lockhart, 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 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 29, 2:07 PM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 2:07 PM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 207 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996 88-D QUIET ATTM WITH REGIONAL RADAR SHOWING CONVECTION BEGINNING TO FIRE ACROSS NRN AL. ADAP SHOWS ATMOS OVER CWA UNSTABLE WITH NO CAP. FRONT AND JET MAXS PROGGED TO CROSS CWA TONIGHT. MOISTURE CONVERGENCE CONTINUES ACROSS THE CWA SO THINGS MAY NOT GET AS ACTIVE AS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT BUT HIGH CHC POPS ARE WARRANTED FOR WESTERN SECTIONS AND CHC POPS ELSW. MODELS SIMILAR PUSHING FRONT THROUGH TONIGHT AND COOL DRY HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN THROUGH REST OF PERIOD. LOW CLOUDS AND MAYBE SOME L- SHOULD HANG AROUND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING OTHW MOSTLY SUNNY AND COOLER. TEMPS COULD BE HELD UP A LITTLE TONIGHT WITH CLOUDS AND HIHGER WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE FRONT. FOR THE REST OF THE PERIOD THINK FAN TOO COOL. AVL 55/69/47/72 5/0/0/0 CLT 61/75/54/78 4/0/0/0 GSP 61/76/53/79 4/0/0/0 ^ RWH
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 29, 6:08 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
607 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
549 PM 10 E MOORESVILLE NC TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
ROWAN SOUTHWEST ROWAN COUNTY.
REPORTED BY ROWAN COUNTY
V 911.
DHRLocal storm report, May 29, 6:15 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, May 29, 6:34 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
632 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
611 PM SALISBURY NC TORNADO DOWNED TREES ON
ROWAN JULIUS DR. REPORTED BY
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
DHRLocal storm report, May 29, 6:39 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
637 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
600 PM ATWELL NC WIND DAMAGE...TOOK ALL
ROWAN SHINGLES OFF HOUSE...
DESTROYED OUT BUILDING
AND GOLF CART. REPORTED
HAM SPOTTER.
DHRLocal storm report, May 29, 6:44 PM EDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
644 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
545 PM UNION SC 1.00 INCH HAIL REPORTED
UNION BY SPOTTER.
600 PM CHESTER CITY SC WIND DAMAGE...TREES DOWN
CHESTER IN RICHBURG AREA. REPORTED
BY SPOTTER.
606 PM SALISBURY 4E NC 1.75 INCH HAIL. REPORTED
ROWAN BY SPOTTER.
DHRThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 40 min |
| May 29, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 49 min |
| May 29, 5:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 43 min |
| May 29, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 49 min |
| May 29, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 41 min |
| May 29, 5:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Rowan | 35 min |
| May 29, 6:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 33 min |
| May 29, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 49 min |
| May 29, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 40 min |
| May 29, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 43 min |
| May 29, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 52 min |
| May 29, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 56 min |
| May 29, 5:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 40 min |
| May 29, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 45 min |
| May 29, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 50 min |
| May 29, 7:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Chester | 37 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.