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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 13, 1993Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1993, 5:05 PM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1993, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1993, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Gaston County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 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 12:00Z on 1993-05-13Temperature 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1993-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -24 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson62 min
May 13, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford66 min
May 13, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland, Lincoln45 min
May 13, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba40 min
May 13, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln32 min
May 13, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk, Rutherford60 min
May 13, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln30 min
May 13, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg51 min
May 13, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus33 min
May 13, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson56 min
May 13, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson58 min
May 13, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenwood, Laurens28 min
May 13, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg25 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.