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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 158, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 4, 1998Greenwood County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1998, 6:07 PM EDT for Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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 4, 1998, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1998, 6:55 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Greenwood County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 6:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 2419 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 685 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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 4, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
240 PM EDT THU JUN 4 1998

VERY BUSY. DID NOT GET THE BEST LOOK AT MDL DATA SINCE THEY WERE LATE
AND SVR WX IN CWA. LOOKS LIKE FNT TO WOBBLE ACROSS CWA THRU PERIOD.
APPEARS TO MOVE INTO SRN CWA DURING SAT. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES MOVE OVER
CWA THRU PERIOD. UPR JET IN FAVORABLE POSITION FOR LIFT. SHOULD BE HIGH
POPS TONIGHT AS STRONG/SVR TSRA CONTINUE ACROSS CWA. MOISTURE REMAINS
HIGH AND WIND FIELD REMAINS STRONG EVEN THOUGH INSTABILITY LESSENS A
LITTLE. WITH FNT SAGGING A LITTLE FARTHER SWD...MAY WANT A LITTLE LOWER
POPS SAT NRN TIER. HIGH CHC POPS ELSEWHERE AND OTHER TIMES.

FAN STILL TOO COOL. COOLING ADVERTISED BY FWC MAY BE TOO MUCH...ESP
SINCE THICKNESSES DO NOT FALL MUCH EVEN ACROSS NC. CLOUDS AND PRECIP
WOULD LOWER TEMPS SOMEWHAT. FWC STILL WAY TO GO.

AVL 69/82/65/77 6/5/5/4
CLT 72/84/68/78 6/5/5/5
GSP 70/84/67/78 6/5/5/5

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
222 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

215 PM     2 W ELBERTON              GA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ELBERT                         SPOTTER REPORT

VAD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
222 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

215 PM     2 W ELBERTON              GA   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ELBERT                         SPOTTER REPORT

VAD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
302 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

255 PM     FORTSONIA                 GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ELBERT                         COMMS RELAYED PUBLIC
                                          REPORT - TIME OF EVENT
                                          COULD HAVE BEEN EARLIER

VAD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 3:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
302 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

255 PM     FORTSONIA                 GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ELBERT                         COMMS RELAYED PUBLIC
                                          REPORT - TIME OF EVENT
                                          COULD HAVE BEEN EARLIER

VAD

Local storm report, Jun 4, 4:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
459 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

457 PM     6 N ANDERSON              SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ANDERSON                       SPOTTER 1 MILE EAST OF
                                          INTERSTATE 85 EXIT 21
                                          REPORTS QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 4:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
459 PM EDT THU JUN 04 1998

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

457 PM     6 N ANDERSON              SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/98   ANDERSON                       SPOTTER 1 MILE EAST OF
                                          INTERSTATE 85 EXIT 21
                                          REPORTS QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery	59 min
Jun 3, 9:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander	32 min
Jun 3, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	45 min
Jun 3, 9:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	35 min
Jun 4, 12:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	47 min
Jun 4, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	32 min
Jun 4, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	49 min
Jun 4, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	48 min
Jun 4, 6:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Chester	30 min
Jun 4, 12:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Stephens	22 min
Jun 4, 12:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Hart	33 min
Jun 4, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert	30 min
Jun 4, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.