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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 16, 1993Union County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1993, 2:38 AM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 16, 1993, 2:38 AM EDT (06:38 UTC)
Expired
Apr 16, 1993, 3:30 AM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 279 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 00:00Z on 1993-04-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 239 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 00:00Z on 1993-04-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 283 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 10:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson65 min
Apr 16, 2:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus46 min
Apr 16, 4:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnson60 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.