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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 5, 1997Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1997, 5:21 PM EDT for Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 min. 2 reports 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: Aug 5, 1997, 5:21 PM EDT (21:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 5, 5:34 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Seneca, SC
Aug 5, 5:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Clemson, 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 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 Aug 5, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
346 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 1997

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

250 PM     PAULINE                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
08/05/97   SPARTANBURG                    MANY TREES DOWN. REPORTED
                                          BY HIGHWAY PATROL AND
                                          SPARTANBURG COMMUNICATIONS
                                          CENTER.

KAJ

Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:27 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
427 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 1997

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

421 PM     COUNTY WIDE               NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/05/97   RUTHERFORD                     TREES DOWN NEAR
                                          BOSTIC...ELLENBORO AND
                                          FOREST CITY. REPORTED BY
                                          911 COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.

KAJ

Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:38 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
439 PM EDT TUE AUG 05 1997

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

435 PM     BOILING SPRINGS           NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/05/97   CLEVELAND                      SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY 911
                                          COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.
J
KAJ

Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:39 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:19 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:20 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rutherford	54 min
Aug 5, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	53 min
Aug 5, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	47 min
Aug 5, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	68 min
Aug 5, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	42 min
Aug 5, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	York	68 min
Aug 5, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	59 min
Aug 5, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	61 min
Aug 5, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.