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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 16, 1996Graham County, North Carolina

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.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Sep 16, 8:25 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50Robbinsville, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-09-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 199 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-09-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 224 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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, 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.

JZ
Local 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.
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JZ
Local 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.

JZ
Local storm report, Sep 16, 7:25 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 16, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland, Gaston33 min
Sep 16, 4:31 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson, Oconee44 min
Sep 16, 5:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville42 min
Sep 16, 5:23 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPLaurens, Spartanburg37 min
Sep 16, 5:57 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood, Laurens48 min
Sep 16, 6:03 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion42 min
Sep 16, 7:02 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood43 min
Sep 16, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRabun46 min
Sep 16, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPFranklin37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Every 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.