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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 23, 1997Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 23, 1997, 5:06 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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
Jul 23, 1997, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1997, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Laurens County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1997-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1265 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1997-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 232106 RRA
TORGSP
SCC059-232130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
506 PM EDT WED JUL 23 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...LAURENS COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO MOVING INTO
WESTERN LAURENS COUNTY. TREES WERE DOWNED JUST WEST OF WARE SHOALS
AT 459 PM...POSSIBLY BY A TORNADO.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL HEAD TOWARD GRAY
COURT AND BARKSDALE.
 
TORNADOES IN TROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEMS USUALLY DEVELOP QUICKLY...
MOVE RAPIDLY...AND .CAN OCCUR REPEATEDLY FROM THE SAME BAND OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA AND ARE CLOSE
TO A THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER UNTIL IT PASSES.
 
ZOLTOWSKI
 
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.