Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 27, 1994Graham County, Swain County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1994, 1:32 PM EST for Graham County, Swain County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1994, 1:32 PM EST (18:32 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1994, 2:30 PM EST
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Graham County, NC, Swain County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 1994-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 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 1994-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 530 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
530 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
654 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 27, 10:00 AM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
1000 AM EST SUN MAR 27 1994

TIME            EVENT

925 AM EST      POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN IN CLAY COUNTY.  REPORTED BY
                CLAY COUNTY SHERIFF`S DEPARTMENT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 1:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Clay55 min
Mar 27, 3:35 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPJackson, Transylvania40 min
Mar 27, 3:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMacon59 min
Mar 27, 4:08 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPHenderson, Polk67 min
Mar 27, 4:45 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPRutherford45 min
Mar 27, 5:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland55 min
Mar 27, 5:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania37 min
Mar 27, 5:29 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGaston61 min
Mar 27, 5:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson66 min
Mar 27, 5:53 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGaston37 min
Mar 27, 5:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania34 min
Mar 27, 6:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Graham63 min
Mar 27, 6:27 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGaston33 min
Mar 27, 6:31 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGaston59 min
Mar 27, 6:53 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus52 min
Mar 27, 3:01 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPOconee44 min
Mar 27, 3:28 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPPickens47 min
Mar 27, 3:50 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPOconee55 min
Mar 27, 4:04 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGreenville41 min
Mar 27, 4:18 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPPickens42 min
Mar 27, 4:33 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg27 min
Mar 27, 4:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville59 min
Mar 27, 4:58 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGreenville, Pickens62 min
Mar 27, 5:08 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, Spartanburg67 min
Mar 27, 5:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee54 min
Mar 27, 5:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens53 min
Mar 27, 6:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville46 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.