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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 16, 1997Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1997, 3:23 PM EDT for Rutherford 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: Jul 16, 1997, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1997, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Rutherford County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 1460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -15 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 Jul 16, 2:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG, SC
120 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

DISC: GOING FCST LOOKS GOOD...

BOTH NGM/ETA INDICATED A SHORTWAVE MOVG THRU NRN MTS IN NC BTWN 12-00
TSTMS ARE FIRING UP THERE NOW.  DONT SEE MUCH ACTIVITY IN SC/GA...
20 POPS FOR THESE AREAS LOOK GOOD. HOW THETA E RIDGE OVR THIS AREA.

QUICK LOOK AT GRIDS...BEST SUPPORT FOR TSTMS WAS OVER NC MAINLY WHERE
TSTMS ARE NOW...NOT A GREAT DEAL OF SUPPORT FOR CLT AREA. SOME CAA
BTN 700 AND 500MB AND PVA IN CLT AREA.

AVL 65/86/63/88 3221
CLT 72/93/70/93 4321
GSP 70/92/68/93 2221

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 2:34 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 2:35 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 2:43 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
243 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

240 PM     HICKORY                   NC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97   CATAWBA                        REPORTED BY SKYWARN
                                          SPOTTER.

KAJ

Local storm report, Jul 16, 2:43 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
243 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

240 PM     HICKORY                   NC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97   CATAWBA                        REPORTED BY SKYWARN
                                          SPOTTER.

KAJ

Local storm report, Jul 16, 2:56 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
256 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

250 PM     BAT CAVE                  NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97   HENDERSON                      TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWNED. REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          SHERIFF

JZ

Local storm report, Jul 16, 2:57 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
256 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

250 PM     BAT CAVE                  NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97   HENDERSON                      TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWNED. REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          SHERIFF

JZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander	41 min
Jul 16, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba	64 min
Jul 16, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson	25 min
Jul 16, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	41 min
Jul 16, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Madison	52 min
Jul 16, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	55 min
Jul 16, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	48 min
Jul 16, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	52 min
Jul 16, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenwood	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.