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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 29, 1994Watauga County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 5:27 PM EDT for Watauga County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1994, 5:27 PM EDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Watauga County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 12:00Z on 1994-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 180 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 12:00Z on 1994-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
180 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
978 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston, Lincoln46 min
Jun 28, 8:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland45 min
Jun 28, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston51 min
Jun 28, 9:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion48 min
Jun 28, 9:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnson46 min
Jun 28, 9:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Stanly, Union67 min
Jun 28, 10:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMontgomery44 min
Jun 28, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson55 min
Jun 28, 8:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAbbeville118 min
Jun 28, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville118 min
Jun 29, 12:58 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAbbeville2 hr
Jun 29, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee50 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.