Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 4:49 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
- Jul 25, 1996, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 1413 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 736 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 Jul 25, 2:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 201 PM EDT THU JUL 25 1996 ALL: CHC POPS FOR TNT...CLRG FRI AM. TEMPS BIT WRMR THAN MOS FRI. ACTV WX..SO NOT A WHOLE LOT OF TIME. STL APPRS ALL ACTVTY ASSD WITH PRE-FRNTL TROF..AND RDR IND PRECIP MAY COMPLETELY CUT OFF BY ERLY EVNG. THINK POT FOR ACTV WX WL GO A LITTLE WAY INTO OVRNGT HRS STL. MDLS CONT TREND OF PUSHNG FRNT ON THROUGH..THO I GET THE IDEA THEY ARE SUGSTG THAT SOME MEANDERING WILL OCCUR AS FTR ENCOUNTRS MTNS. BEST LIFT FOR CNVCTN LIFTS OUT AFT 07Z OR SO AS DRIER AIR TRIES TO MOVE INTO MTNS ERLY IN PREDAWN PERIOD TNT...THEN ONTO REST OF AREA DURNG AM HRS FRI. FLY IN THE OINTMENT IS IF TROF CONTS TO DIG...DOWNSLOPE (AND CLRG) WL BE DLYD UPST/NE GA...LEADING TO POSBLTY OF AM RW ERN HALF OF CWA. REST OF FCST APPRS EASY...EVNTUALLY GETTING MS ON FRI...CLR FRI NGT AND RTN MOISTR FOR SAT WTH CHC AFTN RW/TRW. WTH STRNG JUL SUN...TEMPS SHUD OVRCM ANY CAA TO SOAR A LTL ABV MOS LVLS. HAVE DOUBTS THAT 50 DWPTS WL MAKE IT TO AVL FRI NGT..BUT SHUD BE MORE PLEASANT ALL ACRS CWA THAN IN PAST WEEK. AVL 64/84/61/85 4/0/0/3 CLT 70/88/65/89 4/3/0/3 GSP 68/87/64/88 4/0/0/3 BURRUS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.