Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 8:55 PM EST for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 50 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
- Jan 18, 1996, 8:55 PM EST (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1996, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 9:15 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Pickens, SC |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jan 18, 8:47 PM EST, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 8:47 PM EST, 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC 845 PM EST WED JAN 17 1996 ATL/RDU: NEED TO CONSIDER HIGH WIND WARNING MOUNTAINS. DISC: KGSP WSR88-D SHOWING 50 KNOTS OF INBOUND AS LOW AS 4000 FT IN NE GA AND SOUTHERN UPSTATE. REPORT FROM FLAT TOP MT EAST OF AVL HAD WINDS 1522G48 AT 730 PM...WITH 72 KNOT GUST AT 830 PM (STRONGEST FROM SE IN 20 YEARS)...WINDS INCREASING AND ROOF CREAKING. JAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 10:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 4 hr |
| Jan 18, 11:33 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 3 hr |
| Jan 18, 11:57 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Transylvania | 4 hr |
| Jan 18, 11:57 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Macon | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 52 min |
| Jan 19, 3:33 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke | 3 hr |
| Jan 18, 8:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 68 min |
| Jan 19, 1:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville | 68 min |
| Jan 19, 1:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 59 min |
| Jan 19, 2:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.