Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1997, 4:38 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report 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
- Jul 16, 1997, 4:38 PM EDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1997, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 5:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Spartanburg, 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.
- 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
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, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 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 PT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
326 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
300 PM LAKE LURE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 RUTHERFORD TREES DOWNED. ALSO HAIL OF
UNKNOWN SIZE. REPORTED BY
COUNTY COMMS.
JZLocal storm report, Jul 16, 3:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
326 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
300 PM LAKE LURE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 RUTHERFORD TREES DOWNED. ALSO HAIL OF
UNKNOWN SIZE. REPORTED BY
COUNTY COMMS.
JZLocal storm report, Jul 16, 3:44 PM EDT, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
344 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
341 PM EARL NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 CLEVELAND REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
JZLocal storm report, Jul 16, 3:45 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
344 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.>....
341 PM EARL NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 CLEVELAND REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
JZLocal storm report, Jul 16, 3:57 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
357 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
355 PM 2 E SHELBY NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 CLEVELAND WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED
GREATER THAN 50 MPH.
REPORT FROM AMATEUR RADIO
JZLocal storm report, Jul 16, 3:58 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
357 PM EDT WED JUL 16 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
355 PM 2 E SHELBY NC .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 CLEVELAND WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED
GREATER THAN 50 MPH.
REPORT FROM AMATEjUR RADIO
JZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.