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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 8, 1996Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1996, 5:28 PM EDT for Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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
Jun 8, 1996, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Rowan County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 5:40 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Granite Quarry, NC
Jun 8, 5:55 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Spencer, 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 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
Jun 8, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPIredell52 min
Jun 8, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion36 min
Jun 8, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.