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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 16, 1996Henderson County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1996, 4:56 PM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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: Aug 16, 1996, 4:56 PM EDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Henderson County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 489 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 16, 2:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 2:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:33 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 8:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	4 hr
Aug 16, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander	36 min
Aug 16, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.