Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 11:54 AM EDT for Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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
- Apr 20, 1996, 11:54 AM EDT (15:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1996, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 12:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Burning Town, NC | |
| Apr 20, 12:27 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Franklin, 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 20, 9:59 AM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 20, 9:59 AM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 959 AM EDT SAT APR 20 1996 RAH/CAE: AT LEAST CHANCE POPS ALL AREAS. TEMPS SHUD BE OK. DISC: LOW CLOUDS HANGING IN SOME AREAS WHILE QUICKLY ERODING IN OTHERS. LOTS OF BREAKS IN THE MID/HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS WILL ALLOW GUD WARMING TO OCCUR WHEN LOW CLOUDS FINALLY DISSIPATE. STRONG LINE OF TRW MOVING ACROSS E TN ATTM. WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF IT DOES THE USUAL WEAKENING AS IT INTERACTS WITH THE HIGH MOUNTAINS. EVEN IF IT DOES WEAKEN IT COULD PROVIDE A GUD BOUNDARY FOR CONVECTION OVER PIEDMONT... FOOTHILLS AND EVEN UPSTATE. OUR 88D VWP SHOWS GUD SPEED SHEAR BUT LITTLE DIRECTIONAL SHEAR. ADD TO THIS UPPER 50 AND LOWER 60 DEW POINTS ACROSS CAROLINAS IT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ACTIVE DAY. RWH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 62 min |
| Apr 20, 12:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Haywood | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 12:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Transylvania | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 36 min |
| Apr 20, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 54 min |
| Apr 20, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.