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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 24, 1996Anderson County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1996, 5:44 PM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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 24, 1996, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Anderson County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 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 24, 2:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 24, 4:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 24, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME OF REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
426 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
420 PM     CATAWBA                   NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/24/96   CATAWBA                        TREES DOWN ON OLD CATAWBA
                                          ROAD. REPORTED BY CATAWBA
                                          911.

BURRUS

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
407 PM     3 SE HENDERSONVILLE       NC   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/24/96   HENDERSON                      SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          CONTINUOUS RAIN OF DIME
                                          SIZED HAIL AT INTERSECTION
                                          OF U.S. 25 AND INTERSTATE
                                          26.

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
319 PM     1 W GLEN ALPINE           NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/24/96   BURKE                          GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                       p                   REPORTED BY BURKE COUNTY
                                          SHERIFF OFFICE

Local storm report, Aug 24, 4:51 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED FOR TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
409 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
407 PM     3 SE HENDERSONVILLE       NC   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/24/96   HENDERSON                      SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          CONTINUOUS RAIN OF DIME
                                          SIZED HAIL AT INTERSECTION
                                          OF U.S. 25 AND INTERSTATE
                                          26.

Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:31 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
531 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
500 PM     SIMPSONVILLE              SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
08/24/96   GREENVILLE                     DIME SIZED HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER IN SIMPSONVILLE

BURRUS

Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:41 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
540 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
531 PM     7 E CHARLOTTE             NC   0.75 HAIL
08/24/96   MECKLENBURG                    2 SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME
                                          SIZED HAIL AND HAD ONE
                                          MEASURED WIND GUST TO 55
                                          MPH ALONG ALBEMARLE ROAD
                                          EAST OF CHARLOTTE AND
                                          NORTH OF MINT HILL

Local storm report, Aug 24, 5:43 PM EDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED HAIL SIZE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
531 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
500 PM     SIMPSONVILLE              SC   0.88 INCH HAIL
08/24/96   GREENVILLE                     NICKEL SIZED HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY SPOTTER IN SIMPSONVILLE

BURRUS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	30 min
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, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.