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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 2, 1996Catawba County, Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 3:17 PM EDT for Catawba County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 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
Jul 2, 1996, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1996, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Catawba County, NC, Iredell County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 2, 3:20 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Statesville, NC
Jul 2, 3:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Sherrills Ford, NC
Jul 2, 3:45 PM EDTHail 0.75Mooresville, 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 90 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

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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.