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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 5, 1996Burke County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 8:21 PM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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
May 5, 1996, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Burke County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 5, 8:30 PM EDTHail 1.75Jonas Ridge, 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 255 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1038 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, Roanoke, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 134 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1038 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
825 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 6, 1:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee29 min
May 6, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson36 min
May 6, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville34 min
May 6, 12:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHabersham52 min
May 6, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPFranklin, Hart49 min
May 6, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPStephens49 min
May 6, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPStephens39 min
May 6, 1:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPFranklin29 min
May 6, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHart43 min
May 6, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPElbert, Hart28 min
May 6, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPElbert24 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.