Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Issued

Aug 5, 1997, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)

Expired

Aug 5, 1997, 3:15 PM EDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Area

Whole counties

County Spartanburg County, SC

The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 051828 RRA
SVRGSP
SCC083-051915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
228 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY
 
AT 226 PM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAUSING LARGE HAIL OVER THE
CITY OF SPARTANBURG MOVING SOUTH TOWARD ROEBUCK...PAULINE...GLENN
SPRINGS AND PERHAPS TOWARD WOODRUFF. ON THE CURRENT TRACK AND SPEED OF
MOVEMENT...THE STORM WOULD REACH WOODRUFF OR JUST EAST OF THERE BEFORE 3
PM.  DAMAGING WINDS WILL BECOME MORE LIKELY AS THE STORM MOVES SOUTH.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
 
JONES

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 5, 2:25 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
224 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 1997

RAH/CAE: WILL PROB NEED EVE PERIOD/WORDING TONIGHT.

DISC: GOOD AMOUNT OF SH/TSRA MOVING INTO NC MTNS ATTM. MORE DEVELOPMENT
IN UPSTATE NOW THAN WHEN I TALKED TO YOU EARLIER CAE. WILL PROB NEED
SOME MENTION OF THIS ACTIVITY. WILL HAVE TO WATCH TO SEE IF NC
FOOT/PIED WILL NEED MENTION AS WELL.

AVN ODD MAN OUT REFERRING TO DEVELOPING LOWS ALONG FNT AND SC CST. MAIN
DIFF IN ETA/NGM IS MOISTURE AND LIFT. ETA HAS MORE OF THE TWO BEGINNING
AT 36 HRS. NGM HAS SOME MOISTURE AND LIFT THOUGH. ETA ALSO HAS GOOD
UPSLOPE FLOW THRU H85 AND VEERING PROFILE. NGM LESS. MAY WANT TO PUT
SMALL POP IN WED NITE AND THU ALONG WITH MORE CLOUDS. BUT WITH THE
UNCERTAINTY AND LATER PERIOD MAY BE ABLE TO GET BY WITH JUST CLOUDS.

GUID NUMBERS THIS RUN WARMER THAN PREVIOUS. I WENT WITH THE WARMER
TEMPS AS THIS AIR MASS HAS MODIFIED MUCH MORE THAN WITH PREVIOUS xFROPA.
STILL TEMPS WILL BE BELOW NORMAL...ALTHOUGH MY NUMBERS ARE NOT IN
RECORD TERRITORY. JUST IN CASE RECORD LOWS TONIGHT: AVL..53 CLT..57
GSP..56.

AVL 56/75/57/74 3/0/0/3
CLT 65/82/65/81 0/0/0/3
GSP 62/83/62/82 3/0/0/3

RWH

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

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.