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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 1, 1993Cabarrus County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 1993, 2:51 AM EST for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 1, 1993, 2:51 AM EST (07:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 1, 1993, 3:30 AM EST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Cabarrus County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1993-04-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 195 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1993-04-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 232 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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 office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 31, 7:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford56 min
Mar 31, 7:22 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPRutherford53 min
Mar 31, 7:25 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPCleveland50 min
Mar 31, 7:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln53 min
Mar 31, 8:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston40 min
Mar 31, 8:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston61 min
Mar 31, 9:06 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPMecklenburg69 min
Mar 31, 9:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania53 min
Mar 31, 9:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson60 min
Mar 31, 9:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk, Rutherford60 min
Mar 31, 7:08 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg67 min
Mar 31, 7:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee64 min
Mar 31, 8:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson69 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.