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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 203, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 19, 1998Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1998, 2:17 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 23 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 19, 1998, 2:17 PM EDT (18:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 1998, 2:40 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Laurens County, SC

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 19, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 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 1998-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1030 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 1998-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1030 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 12:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania49 min
Jun 19, 12:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson45 min
Jun 19, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston45 min
Jun 19, 12:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson, Pickens45 min
Jun 19, 1:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville30 min
Jun 19, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens, Spartanburg45 min
Jun 19, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville46 min
Jun 19, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenwood55 min
Jun 19, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Union48 min
Jun 19, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester, York45 min
Jun 19, 12:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHabersham32 min
Jun 19, 1:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPElbert39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1998Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.