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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 3:14 PM EDT for Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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
- Sep 16, 1996, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rabun County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Sep 16, 2:48 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:48 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC 248 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996 .FCST TRENDS OK FIRST AT HAND WE WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH COMPLEX THAT WILL BE MOVING INTO CWA SHORTLY. GOOD ISENT LIFT AND MOIST CONVG AS WELL AS APRCHNG JET STREAK SHOULD ALLOW STRONG STORMS TO CONT ACROSS SC PORTION OF CWA UNTIL EVENG. LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER S/W WILL FOLLOW THAT ACROSS OVERNIGHT WITH A CFP...LEE SIDE TROF PASSAGE 12Z TO 14Z OR THER ABOUTS. MODELS TRYING TO HOLD HIGHER LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ARND PAST 18Z TUESDAY BUT WEST AND NW FLOW SHOULD DOWNSLOPE AND DRY LOWER LAYERS OUT SO AM NOT BUYING THAT. LOOKS LIKE THERE COULD BE SOME HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT..BUT HAVE NOT SEEN ANYWHERE THAT IS ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTABLE TO FLOODING BECAUSE OF TODAYS RAIN SO ANY PROBLEMS IF THEY DO DEVELOP SHOULD BE LOCALIZED. NOT A LOT OF DIF BETWN AVN AND MOS BUT WARMER MOS MIGHT BE BETTER EAST OF MTNS WITH SOME ADDTNL DWSLP WARMING. GSP 66/84/58/78 6/3/0/0 AVL 64/75/55/72 7/2/0/0 CLT 67/82/60/79 7/3/0/0 NEAL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 33 min |
| Sep 16, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham | 50 min |
| Sep 16, 4:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee | 44 min |
| Sep 16, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 37 min |
| Sep 16, 5:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens | 48 min |
| Sep 16, 6:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 7:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 43 min |
| Sep 16, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.