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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 2, 1997Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 3:46 AM EDT for Pickens 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, 3:46 AM EDT (07:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1997, 4:30 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:46 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
Jun 2, 3:50 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Six Mile, 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

882 
WUUS1 KGSP 020746 RRA
SVRGSP
SCC077-020830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
346 AM EDT MON JUN 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...PICKENS COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 345 AM INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
NINE TIMES IN PICKENS COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKEKLY PRODUCE LARGE
HAIL NEAR AND NORTH OF NINE TIMES AS IT MOVE NORTH AT ABOUT 20 MPH
...TO NEAR OR JUST WEST OF ROCKY BOTTOM.
 
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.
 
ZOLTOWSKI

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 2, 2:57 AM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:57 AM EDT, 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
257 AM EDT MON JUN 2 1997

ALL: CHC TDY AND TNT...PROB CONT CHC FOR WED. BEST CHC FOR PRECIP SRN
     CNTIES HWVR.

COLD POOL ALF IN EVIDENCE TNT WITH AN OUTBREAK OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH
LARGE HAIL IN NE GA AND WRN HALF OF SC UPST. HAIL AS LARGE AS
QUARTER-SIZE FROM SALEM JUST ALLED INTO OFFICE NOT MINUTES AGO. ATMOS
VERY VOLATILE...AND SHUD GET MORE SO THIS AFTN WITH EVEN COLDER AIR
ALF ADVCTNG TWRD UPST AND PDS OF SUN TO DESTABILIZE LWR LVLS. AFTN
CUD GET QUITE INTERESTING. CHC POPS SHUD CONT TDY...TNT.

UPR LOW FINALLY BEGINS TO FILL THIS RUN...AND GUIDANCE TRIES TO DROP
SFC LOW AND ASSD COLD FRONT CURNTLY IN NRN WV SOUTH INTO RGN...WTH
HI PRES BUILDING SOUTH FOR WED. ATMOS TO STAY UNSETTLED...BUT WITH NE
FLO FOR WED..CUD SEE LOW CLDS AND MORE STABLE CONDITIONS.

AVL  69/57/68  4/4/3
CLT  79/60/68  4/4/3
GSP  78/60/67  4/4/3

BURRUS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
213 AM EDT MON JUN 02 1997

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

207 AM     PENDLETON                 SC   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   ANDERSON                       SPOTTER IN PENDLETON
                                          REPORTED HAILSTONES AS
                                          LARGE AS 1.50 INCHES.
                                          REPORT FROM ANDERSON 911.

BURRUS

Local storm report, Jun 2, 2:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
213 AM EDT MON JUN 02 1997

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

207 AM     PENDLETON                 SC   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   ANDERSON                       SPOTTER IN PENDLETON
                                          REPORTED HAILSTONES AS
                                          LARGE AS 1.50 INCHES.
                                          REPORT FROM ANDERSON 911.

BURRUS

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:01 AM EDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
301 AM EDT MON JUN 2 1997

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

220 AM     2 E SENECA                SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/97   OCONEE                         COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS
                                          REPORTS TREES DOWN ON ONE
                                          ROAD.  ALSO HAIL REPORTED
                                          AT PICKENS COUNTY BORDER
                                          BUT NO SIZE GIVEN.

JONES

Local storm report, Jun 2, 3:02 AM EDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
301 AM EDT MON JUN 2 1997

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

220 AM     2 E SENECA                SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/02/97   OCONEE                         COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS
                                          REPORTS TREES DOWN ON ONE
                                          ROAD.  ALSO HARIL REPORTED
                                          AT PICKENS COUNTY BORDER
                                          BUT NO SIZE GIVEN.

JONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 2:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	44 min
Jun 2, 2:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	45 min
Jun 2, 3:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	51 min
Jun 2, 5:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	30 min
Jun 2, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	50 min
Jun 2, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	55 min
Jun 2, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	64 min
Jun 2, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	York	39 min
Jun 2, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	28 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.