Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 24, 1996, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burke County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:19 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Glen Alpine, 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 846 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 Aug 24, 2:17 PM EDT, 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:17 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 218 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 1996 DISC: CONVECTION CONTIUES TO INCREASE ACRS THE NC MTNS/FTHLS...AHEAD OF SFC FRNT WHICH AT 17Z XTND FROM CENTRL TN INTO SOUTHERN WV. WE ARE ANTICIPATING FAIRLY WIDESPREAD CONVECTION TO PUSH SOUTHEAST ACRS MY NC COUNTIES...EVENTUALLY INTO SC/GA. NGM CONTS TO ADVERTISE SLOWER FRONTAL MOVEMENT...WHICH LKS MOST RSNBL. GRIDS KEEP HIGHEST THETA-E AIR/ BEST LIFT AND INSTABILITY ACRS MY CWA THROUGH TOMORROW...AS FRONT HANGS UP IN THE AREA. MY POPS LEAN A BIT HIER THAN GUIDANCE THROUGH SUNDAY. FOR THE REST OF THE SHORT RANGE...FRONT SHUD GRADUALLY DISSIPATE ACRS THE AREA AS UPPER SUPPORT MOVES OUT. p PLENTY OF MSTR WL REMAIN HWVR...AND CHC POPS ARE IN ORDER. AVL 63/80/62/83 7643 CLT 70/85/69/87 6643 GSP 68/85/68/87 6643 JOHNSTONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 39 min |
| Aug 24, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 35 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.