Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1993, 3:25 PM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 1993, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1993, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buncombe County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 502 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAVL 191925 TORAVL NCC021-192000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 325 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN BUNCOMBE COUNTY A FUNNEL CLOUD CONTINUES TO BE REPORTED BY CLIMATIC DATA CENTER EMPLOYEES AND HAM OPERATORS JUST EAST OF THE BILTMORE ESTATES AREA OF ASHEVILLE. IF THE FUNNEL CLOUD TOUCHES THE GROUND...DAMAGE WILL OCCUR...IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE SHELTER NOW. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO A BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A DITCH. R JONES/AVL &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 19, 1:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
NCZ007-008-014-191900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 125 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 ...A PORTION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE CANCELLATION PORTION OF THE WATCH INCLUDES ROWAN COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND CHEROKEE COUNTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR A LARGE PORTION OF BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. INCLUDED WITHIN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA ARE THE NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES OF CLEVELAND... LINCOLN... GASTON... MECKLENBURG...CABARRUS...STANLY... UNION... ANSON... MONTGOMERY AND RICHMOND. THE SAME SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH COVERS YORK... CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 115 THIS AFTERNOON AN AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN WAS DETECTED ON WEATHER RADAR FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN PIEDMONT SOUTHWEST THROUGH CATAWBA...LINCOLN AND CLEVELAND COUNTIES AND ACROSS THE STATELINE INTO WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. THE PRECIPITATION INTENSITY HAD DECREASED SINCE NOON AND THE RAIN AREA WAS DECREASING IN AREAL COVERAGE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT NEAR 35 MPH. LIGHT RAIN WILL BEGIN IN GASTONIA AROUND 130 THIS AFTERNOjON AND IN CHARLOTTE BETWEEN 200 AND 230 PM. THE NEXT STATMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 300 THIS AFTERNOON. DO NOT USE THIS STATEMENT BEYOND THAT TIME AS IT IS LIKELY THE WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 300 PM. RNM
Special weather statement, May 19, 2:25 PM EDT, 1 hour before
NCZ007-008-014-191900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 225 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 ...CORRECTION FOR TIME IN HEADER... ...A PORTION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE CANCELLATION PORTION OF THE WATCH INCLUDES CLEVELAND...LINCOLN...GASTON...MECKLENBURG...CABARRUS...STANLY...UNION ...ANSON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR RICHMOND COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND YORK... CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 230 THIS AFTERNOON AN AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN FROM GASTON COUNTY AND LINCOLN COUNTY WEST INTO CLEVALAND COUNTY. THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION ALSO EXTENDED NORTH INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN PIEDMONT AND SOUTH ACROSS THE STATE LINE THROUGH THE SOUTH CAROLINA EASTERN PIEDMONT AND MIDLANDS. FORWARD PROGRESSION OF THE RAIN HAD SLOWED SINCE 100 PM AND THE MOVMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT NEAR 20 MPH. THE PRECIPITATION CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE THROUGHOUT CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THIS MEANS THAT ADDITIONAL RAIN WITHIN THE METROLINA CHARLOTTE AREA WILL NOT BE SIGNIFICANT. THE NEXT STATMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 300 THIS AFTERNOON. DO NOT USE THIS STATEMENT BEYOND THAT TIME AS IT IS LIKELY THE WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 300 PM. RNM
Special weather statement, May 19, 2:32 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
NCZ007-008-014-191900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 125 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 ...A PORTION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE CANCELLATION PORTION OF THE WATCH INCLUDES CLEVELAND...LINCOLN...GASTON...MECKLENBURG...CABARRUS...STANLY...UNION ...ANSON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR RICHMOND COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND YORK... CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 230 THIS AFTERNOON AN AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN FROM GASTON COUNTY AND LINCOLN COUNTY WEST INTO CLEVALAND COUNTY. THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION ALSO EXTENDED NORTH INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN PIEDMONT AND SOUTH ACROSS THE STATE LINE THROUGH THE SOUTH CAROLINA EASTERN PIEDMONT AND MIDLANDS. FORWARD PROGRESSION OF THE RAIN HAD SLOWED SINCE 100 PM AND THE MOVMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT NEAR 20 MPH. THE PRECIPITATION CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE THROUGHOUT CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THIS MEANS THAT ADDITIONAL RAIN WITHIN THE METROLINA CHARLOTTE AREA WILL NOT BE SIGNIFICANT. THE NEXT STATMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 300 THIS 2AFTERNOON. DO NOT USE THIS STATEMENT BEYOND THAT TIME AS IT IS LIKELY THE WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 300 PM. RNM
Special weather statement, May 19, 2:33 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
NCZ007-008-014-191900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 225 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 ...CORRECTION FOR TIME IN HEADER... ...A PORTION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE COUNTIES INCLUDED IN THE CANCELLATION PORTION OF THE WATCH INCLUDES CLEVELAND...LINCOLN...GASTON...MECKLENBURG...CABARRUS...STANLY...UNION ...ANSON AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA... ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM FOR RICHMOND COUNTY OF NORTH CAROLINA AND YORK... CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 230 THIS AFTERNOON AN AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAIN FROM GASTON COUNTY AND LINCOLN COUNTY WEST INTO CLEVALAND COUNTY. THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION ALSO EXTENDED NORTH INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN PIEDMONT AND SOUTH ACROSS THE STATE LINE THROUGH THE SOUTH CAROLINA EASTERN PIEDMONT AND MIDLANDS. FORWARD PROGRESSION OF THE RAIN HAD SLOWED SINCE 100 PM AND THE MOVMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT NEAR 20 MPH. THE PRECIPITATION CONTINUED TO DECREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE THROUGHOUT CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THIS MEANS THAT ADDITIONAL RAIN WITHIN THE METROLINA CHARLOTTE AREA WILL NOT BE SIGNIFICANT.4 THE NEXT STATMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 300 THIS AFTERNOON. DO NOT USE THIS STATEMENT BEYOND THAT TIME AS IT IS LIKELY THE WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 300 PM. RNM
Special weather statement, May 19, 3:00 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
NCZ007-008-014-191900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 300 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF LIGHT RAIN OVER MECKLENBURG... GASTON AND LINCOLN COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT ISSUED. RNM
Special weather statement, May 19, 3:03 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
NCZ007-008-014-191900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 300 PM EDT WED MAY 19 1993 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AvREA OF LIGHT RAIN OVER MECKLENBURG... GASTON AND LINCOLN COUNTIES. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT ISSUED. RNM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 40 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.