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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 24, 1996Henderson County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Henderson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 247 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 533 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 12:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHaywood37 min
Jun 24, 1:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHaywood59 min
Jun 24, 1:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe65 min
Jun 24, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell64 min
Jun 24, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell52 min
Jun 24, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk52 min
Jun 24, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke54 min
Jun 24, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba63 min
Jun 24, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenwood34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.