Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1996, 7:55 PM EDT for Graham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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, 7:55 PM EDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Graham County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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, 8:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Robbinsville, 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
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, 5 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 2:48 PM EDT, 5 hours 7 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, 5:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 54 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, 2 hours 18 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.
JZLocal storm report, Sep 16, 5:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute 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
JZLocal storm report, Sep 16, 6:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
630 PM EDT MON SEP 16 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
500 PM 4 SW PIEDMONT SC WIND DAMAGE
09/16/96 ANDERSON TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
510 PM PELZER SC WIND DAMAGE
09/16/96 ANDERSON TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 20.
JZLocal storm report, Sep 16, 7:25 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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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, 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 |
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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.