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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 2, 1997Anderson County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 2:01 AM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
Jun 2, 1997, 2:01 AM EDT (06:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1997, 2:45 AM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Anderson County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:05 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 2:07 AM EDTHail 1.5Pendleton, 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 982 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1997-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
982 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-0.9

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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 Jun 1, 8:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 8:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 4:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk62 min
Jun 2, 4:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania49 min
Jun 2, 5:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell54 min
Jun 2, 6:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford58 min
Jun 2, 7:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke45 min
Jun 2, 8:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland, Rutherford27 min
Jun 2, 9:26 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCaldwell, Catawba3 hr
Jun 2, 9:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell, Catawba3 hr
Jun 2, 1:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe26 min
Jun 2, 1:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg50 min
Jun 2, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRowan43 min
Jun 2, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe27 min
Jun 2, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston29 min
Jun 2, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe26 min
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell28 min
Jun 2, 2:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee, Pickens45 min
Jun 2, 3:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Spartanburg51 min
Jun 2, 3:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens44 min
Jun 2, 5:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Spartanburg30 min
Jun 2, 1:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion50 min
Jun 2, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg55 min
Jun 2, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee64 min
Jun 2, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPYork39 min
Jun 2, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1997Every 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.