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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 24, 1996Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 4:45 PM EDT for Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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
May 24, 1996, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Rowan County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 75 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 386 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-179 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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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 24, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPIredell, Rowan58 min
May 24, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania69 min
May 24, 5:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPTransylvania3 hr
May 24, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe50 min
May 24, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHaywood57 min
May 24, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba49 min
May 24, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln47 min
May 24, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg, Union54 min
May 24, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson53 min
May 24, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba50 min
May 24, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander46 min
May 24, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell47 min
May 24, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson45 min
May 24, 7:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba42 min
May 24, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.