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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 2, 1997Buncombe County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 1:04 PM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 1997, 1:04 PM EDT (17:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1997, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Buncombe County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 021704 RRA
SVRGSP
NCC021-021730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
104 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BUNCOMBE COUNTY
 
AT 100 PM EDT A SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED 1 INCH SIZE HAIL COVERING THE
GROUND IN CANDLER. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT WEAVERVILLE BEFORE 115 PM.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIVN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
 
KAJ
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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, 9:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 9:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before

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

CAE: TDY PERIOD PRETTY MUCH ON TRACK.
RAH: CONT FFA WHERE HVY RAIN HAS FALLEN THIS AM...N MTNS, ALL
      OF FTHLS + CLEVELAND CO.  IN ANTICIPATION OF TSTM REDEV TDY.
FFC: OTHER THAN WORDING CLEAN-UP...1ST PERIOD ON TRACK.

MODIFIED 12Z SNDGS YIELD MODERATE INSTABILTY ACRS THE FA WITH
COOL & DRY MID-LVL TEMPS REMAINING IN PLACE THRU THIS EVENING AS
UPPER LOW CONTS ITS SLOW EASTWARD DRIFT.  LIKELY NUMEROUS MESO
BNDRYS LURKING AROUND THIS AM TO PROVIDE FOCUSING MECHS AS DAYTIME
HTG WORKS ON LIS APPROACING MINUS 6 & CAPES ABT 1700 WITH AN
IMPRESSIVE DIFFLUENENT FLOW AT BOTH 50H & 30H.

PWS RUNNING 100-125% OF NORMAL...SO NOT A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE
& FEEL FF PROBS WILL STILL NOT EVOLVE OTHER THAN PORTIONS OF THE
NC FTHLS/MTNS WHERE DEEP UPSLOPE WORKS ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND
WHERE TRAINING CONVECTION IS STILL ONGOING ROUGHLY FROM SHELBY TO
LENOIR.  SPECIFIC THOUGHT ON FFA IN RAH RECOMMENDATIONS SECTION.

CSH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 8:41 AM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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

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

800 AM     HUGHES COMMUNITY          NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   AVERY                          COUNTY COMMS REPORTS

JONES

Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:36 AM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

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

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

920 AM     1W ROUTES 10/127          NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   CATAWBA                        HAM RADIO REPORT.

920 AM     SW HICKORY                NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   CATAWBA                        HAM REPORT.

924 AM     LENOIR                    NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   CALDWELL                       NC AREA E OFFICE

CSH

Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:37 AM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

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

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

920 AM     1W ROUTES 10/127          NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   CATAWBA                        HAM RADIO REPORT.

920 AM     SW HICKORY                NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   CATAWBA                        HAM REPORT.

924 AM     LENOIR                    NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   CALDWELL                       NC AREA E OFFICE

CSH

Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:42 AM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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

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

752 AM     10NW MORGANTON            NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   BURKE                          SPOTTER REPORT.

CSH

Local storm report, Jun 2, 9:43 AM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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

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

752 AM     10NW MORGANTON            NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   BURKE                          SPOTTER REPORT.

CSH

Special weather statement, Jun 2, 11:33 AM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

SCZ001>014-019-GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-
062>072-082-030000-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1130 AM EDT MON JUN 2 1997

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE AGAIN TODAY...

AS A RESULT OF DAYTIME HEATING...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA.
DRY AND COLD AIR IN THE MIDDLE LAYERS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL
COMBINE WITH WARM AND MOIST AIR NEAR THE SURFACE TO ALLOW
SOME OF THESE STORMS TO APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS.

THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ACROSS THE CAROLINA
PIEDMONT...BUT SOUTHERLY WINDS THROUGHOUT THE LOWER LAYERS OF THE
ATMOSPHERE MAY ENHANCE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND
FOOTHILLS PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING IS LARGE HAIL
AND TO A LESSER EXTENT...DAMAGING WINDS.

SPOTTER ACTIVIATION MAY BE NECESSARY BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

HORNE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 4:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk	62 min
Jun 2, 4:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	49 min
Jun 2, 5:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	54 min
Jun 2, 6:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rutherford	58 min
Jun 2, 7:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	45 min
Jun 2, 8:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	27 min
Jun 2, 9:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Caldwell, Catawba	3 hr
Jun 2, 9:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell, Catawba	3 hr
Jun 2, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	50 min
Jun 2, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	43 min
Jun 2, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	27 min
Jun 2, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	29 min
Jun 2, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	26 min
Jun 2, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.