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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 9, 1993Cherokee County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1993, 6:10 PM EDT for Cherokee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 9, 1993, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 1993, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Cherokee County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 1993-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 882 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 12:00Z on 1993-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
882 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston25 min
Jul 9, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee29 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.