Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 2:26 PM EDT for Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 64 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, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1997, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 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, 2:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Gaffney, 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 193 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.
- 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
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 2, 9:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 9:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 56 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.
CSHIn the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 2, 1:41 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
141 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
138 PM LOCKHART SC 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97 UNION REPORT FROM UNION COUNTY
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
LGLLocal storm report, Jun 2, 1:42 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
141 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
138 PM LOCKHART SC 0.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97 UNION REPORT FROM UNION COUNTY
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
LGLLocal storm report, Jun 2, 1:51 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
152 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
125 PM CHARLOTTE NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97 MECKLENBURG REPORTED BY CHARLOTTE
POLICE OFFICER.
KAJLocal storm report, Jun 2, 1:52 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
152 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
125 PM CHARLOTTE NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97 MECKLENBURG REPORTED BY CHARLOTTE
POLICE OFFICER.
KAJLocal storm report, Jun 2, 1:56 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
156 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
150 PM WHITMIRE SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97 UNION DIME SIZE HAIL AND A TREE
DOWN OVER HIGHWAY 9.
REPORTED BY HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.
KAJLocal storm report, Jun 2, 1:58 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
156 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
150 PM WHITMIRE SC .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97 UNION DIME SIZE HAIL AND A TREE
DOWN OVER HIGHWAY 9.
REPORTED BY HAM
RADIO OPERATOR.
KAJThe 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, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 26 min |
| 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 |
| 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, 3:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 44 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, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 28 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.