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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 5, 1993Anson County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1993, 8:34 PM EDT for Anson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1993, 8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1993, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Anson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 1993-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3843 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 1993-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 90 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3843 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.6
Supercell composite
10.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRichmond55 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.