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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 22, 1992Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 22, 1992, 10:19 PM EST for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 22, 1992, 10:19 PM EST (03:19 UTC)
Expired
Nov 22, 1992, 11:00 PM EST
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Cleveland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 1992-11-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 576 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1992-11-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 274 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
576 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
557 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
274 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
4.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 22, 9:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford56 min
Nov 22, 9:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland32 min
Nov 22, 10:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba, Lincoln51 min
Nov 22, 9:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville50 min
Nov 22, 9:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg40 min
Nov 22, 9:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee42 min

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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.