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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 5, 1997Abbeville County, Greenwood County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1997, 5:44 PM EDT for Abbeville County, Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 61 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, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 1997, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Abbeville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 5, 5:45 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Ware Shoals, SC
Aug 5, 6:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Abbeville, 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 256 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: 1722 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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 Aug 5, 2:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 4:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 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, 1 hour 5 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.

KAJ

Local storm report, Aug 5, 5:19 PM EDT, 25 minutes 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, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	54 min
Aug 5, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.