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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 24, 1996Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 8:11 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Caldwell County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln46 min
May 24, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke51 min
May 24, 9:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell31 min
May 24, 10:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland, Gaston41 min
May 25, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell, Rutherford51 min
May 25, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford28 min
May 25, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland51 min
May 24, 10:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg43 min
May 24, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester45 min
May 24, 11:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg45 min
May 25, 12:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville55 min
May 25, 12:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg44 min
May 25, 12:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion69 min
May 25, 1:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens44 min
May 25, 2:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenwood69 min
May 25, 3:50 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAnderson5 hr
May 25, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.