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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 19, 1996Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 1996, 2:38 AM EST for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 19, 1996, 2:38 AM EST (07:38 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 1996, 3:30 AM EST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Cleveland County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 74 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jan 19, 2:15 AM EST, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 2:15 AM EST, 23 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC
215 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996

RDU/CAE: CONT WIND ADVISORIES TODAY..WRDNG IN ZNS TEMPS FLLNG THRUOUT
DAY. RESIDUAL MOISTR AND COLDR AIR CUD LD TO A BRF PD OF WNTRY MIX FOR
MTNS AND FOOTHILL AREAS BEFORE ENDING.

A LOT GOING ON TNT...BUT GRIDED DATA AND SFC ANAL IND TIMING OF FROPA
DEPICTED PRETTY WELL BY ETA MDL..AND INTRSTG THAT BEST DYNAMCS PROGD
FOR 06Z AT GSP/AVL..AND BTWN 09Z AND 12Z FOR CLT AREA. THIS ALMOST
PERFECT. EXTRME PRESSURE AND TEMP GRDNTS FOLLOWED ACROSS NORTHERN PLNS
AND LWR MS VLY THU NOW MVNG INTO ERN TN..AND COLD AIR MVNG INTO NC MTNS
NXT FEW HRS. GRIDS IND TEMPS DROPPING THRU DAY..WTH TEMPS BLO FRZNG AT
AVL AND GSP BY 18Z..AND ARND 21Z CLT AND PLCS NRTH.

LOW LVL MOISTR HANGS ON FOR A LITTLE WHILE THIS AM...AND PRECIP CUD
BECM MIXD WITH AND CHG TO SNOW BFR ENDNG THIS AM. NRN MTNS OF NC CUD
SEE AN ACCUM OF AN INCH OR TWO BFR ENDNG...AND THERE CUD BE A BRF PD OF
FRZNG RAIN OR LIGHT SNO FOR FTHL AREAS AND CLT AREA LTR THIS AM. WUD
STL FVR KPNG MNML POPS IN FOR THIS AM PD.

CLDS HNG ON IN NRN MTNS TNT..WTH A FEW FLURRIES. OTHRWS..MSTLY CLR AND
VRY CLD TNT AND SAT.

AVL  41/18/29   3/0/0
CLT  52/21/40   3/0/0
GSP  47/20/43   3/0/0

FOR

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 18, 9:20 PM EST, 5 hours 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
920 PM EST THU JAN 18 1996

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
905 PM     N OF PICKENS HIGHWAY 11   SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/11/95   PICKENS                        OFFICER REPORTED TREES
                                          BLOWN DOWN - TIME
                                          ESTIMATED

WAJ

Local storm report, Jan 18, 9:21 PM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
920 PM EST THU JAN 18 1996

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
905 PM     N OF PICKENS HIGHWAY 11   SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/11/95   PICKENS                        OFFICER REPORTED TREES
                                          BLOWN DOWN - TIME
                                          ESTIMATED

WAJ

Local storm report, Jan 19, 2:00 AM EST, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
200 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
130 AM     ANDERSON AREA             SC   WIND DAMAGE
01/19/96   ANDERSON                       COUPLE TREES DOWN - MORE
                                          TREES DOWN COUPLE HOURS
                                          AGO WITH HIGH GRADIENT
                                          WINDS.

140 AM     WESTSIDE/OTHER LOCATIONS  SC   WIND DAMAGE
01/19/96   GREENVILLE                     6 OR 7 REPORTS OF TREES
                                          DOWN WITH THUNDERSTORM
                                          OFFICER REPORTED
                                          VERY HIGH WINDS.

WAJ

Local storm report, Jan 19, 2:01 AM EST, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
200 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
130 AM     ANDERSON AREA             SC   WIND DAMAGE
01/19/96   ANDERSON                       COUPLE TREES DOWN - MORE
                                          TREES DOWN COUPLE HOURS
                                          AGO WITH HIGH GRADIENT
                                          WINDS.

140 AM     WESTSIDE/OTHER LOCATIONS  SC   WIND DAMAGE
01/19/96   GREENVILLE                     6 OR 7 REPORTS OF TREES
                                          DOWN WITH THUNDERSTORM
                                          OFFICER REPORTED
                                          VERY HIGH WINDS.

WAJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 18, 10:42 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	4 hr
Jan 18, 11:33 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey	3 hr
Jan 18, 11:57 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Haywood, Jackson, Transylvania	4 hr
Jan 18, 11:57 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Macon	4 hr
Jan 19, 3:33 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Burke	3 hr
Jan 18, 8:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	68 min
Jan 18, 8:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	50 min
Jan 19, 1:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	68 min
Jan 19, 1:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	59 min
Jan 19, 2:35 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.