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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 16, 1996Cleveland County, Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 6:12 PM EDT for Cleveland County, Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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: Sep 16, 1996, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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
Sep 16, 6:35 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Shelby, 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:48 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 16, 4:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
439 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.h....
420 PM     LAVONIA                   GA   WIND DAMAGE
09/16/96   FRANKLIN                       DOWNED POWER LINES.
                                          REPORTED BY 911.

Local storm report, Sep 16, 4:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
442 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
438 PM     SENECA                    SC   WIND DAMAGE
09/16/96   OCONEE                         TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          ALONG HIGHWAY 24. AMATEUR
                                          RADIO REPOjRT.

Local storm report, Sep 16, 4:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
458 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
455 PM     3 N ANDERSON              SC   THUNDERSTORM WINDS.
09/16/96   ANDERSON                       60 MPH WIND GUST ESTIMATED
                                          BY AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR NEAR
                                          EXIT 21 ON I-85.

Local storm report, Sep 16, 5:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
500 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
456 PM     ANDERSON                  SC   WIND DAMAGE.
09/16/96   ANDERSON                       ROOF DAMAGE TO A BUILDING ON
                                          MAIN STREET. AMATEUR RADIO
                                          REPORT.

Local storm report, Sep 16, 5:37 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
536 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.4....
535 PM     2 N HICKORY TAVERN        SC   WIND DAMAGE
09/16/96   LAURENS                        MANY LARGE TREES DOWN.
                                          AMATEUR RADIO REPORT.

JZ

Local storm report, Sep 16, 5:54 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
553 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
525 PM     4 S DONALDSON AFB         SC   WIND DAMAGE
09/16/96   GREENVILLE                     PATH OF TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY COUNTY 911.
                                          TIME APPROXIMATE.
h
JZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rabun	46 min
Sep 16, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin	37 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.