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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 31, 1993Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 31, 1993, 9:06 PM EST for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 1993, 9:06 PM EST (02:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 1993, 10:15 PM EST
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Mecklenburg County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLT 010207
TORCLT
NCC119-010315-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
906 PM EST WED MAR 31 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EST
FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...MECKLENBURG COUNTY
 
AT 902 PM EST WEATHER RADAR IN CHARLOTTE SHOWED A TORNADO MOVING EAST
OVER LAKE WYLIE AND INTO THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF MECKLENBURG COUNTY.
THIS TORNADO WILL BE INTO MECKLENBURG COUNTY BY 907 PM EST. ON ITS
PRESENT PATH IT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CAROWINDS... SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG
COUNTY... PINEVILLE AND SOUTHERN CHARLOTE AREAS BETWEEN 9 AN 10 PM
TONIGHT. THIS TORNADO HAS TOUCHED DOWN SEVERAL TIMES THIS EVENING
IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.
 
 
TORNADOES WHICH OCCUR AFTER DARK ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. GET TO
A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. GET OUT
OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLESn. IF DAMAGE OCCURS NEAR YOU...DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO WALK AROUND IN THE DARK. THERE MAY BE DOWNED POWER LINES
AND OTHER HAZARDS THAT CANNOT BE SEEN.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 7:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rutherford	56 min
Mar 31, 7:22 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Rutherford	53 min
Mar 31, 7:25 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cleveland	50 min
Mar 31, 7:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Lincoln	53 min
Mar 31, 8:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	40 min
Mar 31, 8:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	61 min
Mar 31, 9:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	53 min
Mar 31, 9:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	60 min
Mar 31, 9:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	60 min
Apr 1, 2:51 AM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	39 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.