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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 5, 1989Union County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 5, 1989, 4:37 AM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1989, 4:37 AM EDT (08:37 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1989, 5:15 AM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1989-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1989-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 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
May 5, 11:32 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion43 min
May 5, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion27 min
May 5, 4:37 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion38 min
May 5, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnson39 min
May 5, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMontgomery47 min
May 5, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnson37 min
May 5, 6:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPHenderson, Polk, Transylvania115 min
May 5, 6:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBuncombe2 hr
May 5, 7:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBurke, McDowell, Rutherford119 min
May 5, 7:09 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCatawba, Cleveland51 min
May 5, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston, Lincoln58 min
May 5, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg60 min
May 5, 7:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCaldwell96 min
May 5, 7:39 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCaldwell31 min

Nearby

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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.