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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 24, 1993Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1993, 3:10 PM EST for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 1993, 3:10 PM EST (20:10 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1993, 4:00 PM EST
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Stanly County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 12:00Z on 1993-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 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 12:00Z on 1993-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
119 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 KCLT 242012
SVRCLT
NCC167-242100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
310 PM EST WED MAR 24 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EST
FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...STANLY COUNTY
 
AT 308PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL STANLY
COUNTY NEAR ALBEMARLE. GOLF BALL SIZD HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THE STORM
AT 305 NORTH OF ALBEMARLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AROUND
10 MPH.
 
 
THIS IS A SLOW MOVING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH MAY ALSO CAUSE
FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND UNDERPASSES.
 
JS
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 23, 7:05 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPBurke115 min
Mar 23, 7:44 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPJackson76 min
Mar 23, 7:44 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPBuncombe76 min
Mar 24, 2:35 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPMecklenburg115 min
Mar 24, 4:27 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningGSPMecklenburg3 hr
Mar 24, 2:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion69 min
Mar 24, 3:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnson60 min
Mar 24, 4:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMontgomery, Richmond65 min
Mar 24, 4:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnson27 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.