Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 10:03 PM EST for Catawba County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 16, 1996, 10:03 PM EST (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 1996, 10:45 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Catawba County, NC, Iredell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 10:13 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Catawba, NC | |
| Mar 16, 10:21 PM EST | Hail 1.5 | Statesville, 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 615 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
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 Mar 16, 1:42 PM EST, 8 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 1:42 PM EST, 8 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 142 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996 RAH/CAE/FFC: SEE DISC FOR RECOMMEDATIONS. DISC: TRW BEGINNING TO FIRE ACROSS NC MTNS AND NE GA. SAT PICS SHOW VORT MAX ENTERING TN SO TRW WILL CONT TONIGHT. MDLS SIMILAR TONIGHT/SUN WITH VORT MAXS MOVING THRU AREA WITH DIFFERING AMNTS AND AREAS OF UVV. MDLS REALLY DIVERGE SUN NITE/MON. ETA/AVN TRACK SFC LOW FARTHER SOUTH ACROSS SC WHILE NGM TAKES IT NR GSP THEN INTO NC. THIS CAUSES BIG DIFF TO FCST HIGHS AND PRECIP AMNTS MON. COOLER TEMPS AVN/ETA...HEAVY RAIN AVN/NGM. TRENDED TOWARD NGM TRACK/FWC POPS AND TEMPS. THINK WITH BIG JET MAX DIGGING BROAD TROF ACRS CENT US...WINDS ALOFT WILL BACK TO SW SLOWING FORWARD MOVEMENT AND TRACKING LOW FARTHER NORTH AND WEST. NC/GA MTNS WILL BE COOLER WITH POSS FLOODING RAIN MON WITH ANY LOW TRACK DUE TO HIGH RH. WITH NGM...TEMPS SHUD NOT COOL AS MUCH IN UPSTATE...NC FOOTHILLS/PIEDMONT AND SRN NE GA. HEAVY RAINFALL POSS THERE TOO ALONG WITH CONT SVR THREAT. OF COURSE ANY DEVIATION IN MOVEMENT OF SYS WILL CHANGE FCST DRAMATICALLY. ^ AVL 49/62/45/57 7/8/8/8 CLT 54/66/52/62 7/8/8/8 GSP 55/67/51/62 7/8/8/8 RWH
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 7:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 10:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 53 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.