Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 15, 1996Transylvania County, North Carolina; Greenville County, Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 1:19 PM EST for Transylvania County, North Carolina; Greenville County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 min. 5 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 15, 1996, 1:19 PM EST (18:19 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 1996, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Transylvania County, NC, Greenville County, SC, Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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
Mar 15, 1:35 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Liberty, SC
Mar 15, 1:37 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Lake Toxaway, NC
Mar 15, 1:47 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Travelers Rest, SC
Mar 15, 2:02 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Greer, SC
Mar 15, 2:05 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville Donaldson, SC

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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 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 Mar 15, 9:49 AM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 9:49 AM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
949 AM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

RAH: ONLY CONCERN XCPT DROPPING OBVIOUS BCMG WORDING IS MTN TEMPS.

CAE/FFC: SFD/WRKZFP LUKS GUD.

DISC: KGSP 88D SHOWING RW/TRW EXTENDING FROM NC MTNS SWWD INTO NE GA.
PRECIP MOVING EAST. KMRX 88D SHOWING SIMILAR ECHO PATTERN WITH LARGE
AREA OF RAIN/EMBEDDED RW/TRW MOVING INTO E TN AND HEADING THIS WAY.
12Z ANAL SHOWS FNT DRAPED ACRS OH VLY WITH TROFS EXTENDING SWD THRU TN.
WITH GUD AMNTS OF SUNSHINE AND MORE MOISTURE AVAL THAN PREV THOUGHT SVR
STILL POSS TDA BUT AGREE WITH LEAVING IT OUT OF ZONES ATTM. (FFC: OK IN
YOUR ZONES/RAH: LIKE THE SVR OUTLOOK IN THE SWS.) TEMPS MIGHT BE A BIT

HIGH IN NC MTNS WITH PRECIP AND CLD COVER. THERE IS A BREAK BETWEEN
CURRENT PRECIP AND NEXT AREA SO SUN CUD PEAK THROUGH AND TEMPS REBOUND.
LEAVING TEMPS AS IS FINE WITH ME. OTHW ALL FCSTS LUK GUD.

RWH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 1:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	33 min
Mar 15, 2:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	34 min
Mar 15, 2:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	42 min
Mar 15, 3:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Union	27 min
Mar 15, 1:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	59 min
Mar 15, 1:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	53 min
Mar 15, 2:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	27 min
Mar 15, 2:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens	34 min
Mar 15, 2:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Union	34 min
Mar 15, 2:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, York	42 min
Mar 15, 2:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Hart	30 min
Mar 15, 2:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1996 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.