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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 15, 1996Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1996, 2:20 PM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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
Jul 15, 1996, 2:20 PM EDT (18:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Gaston County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 15, 2:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Bessemer City, 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
Jul 15, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland27 min
Jul 15, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg43 min
Jul 15, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Union50 min
Jul 15, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMitchell, Yancey31 min
Jul 15, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRowan45 min
Jul 14, 9:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville45 min
Jul 15, 1:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee34 min
Jul 15, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester, Union, York40 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.