Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1994, 6:58 AM EST for Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 1994, 6:58 AM EST (11:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1994, 7:45 AM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 615 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 772 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 2:25 AM EST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
NCZ056-068>074-082>084-281100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 220 AM EST MON MAR 28 1994 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR CATAWBA... CLEVELAND...LINCOLN... GASTON... MECKLENBURG... IREDELL... ROWAN AND CABARRUS COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA AND CHEROKEE ...YORK... CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA HAS EXPIRED... ... A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TODAY FOR CLEVELAND... CATAWBA... LINCOLN...GASTON AND IREDELL COUNTIES AND WEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS... AT 210 AM WEATHER RADAR IN CHARLOTTE SHOWED SHOWERS FROM JUST WEST PF SHELBY NORTH THROUGH HICKORY EXTENDING INTO SOUTHERN VIRGINIA. THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION SPREAD WEST THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS AND SOUTH ACROSS THE STATE LINE INTO A SECTION OF WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS LIMITED TO A SMALL SECTION OF EXTREME WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA. SOME ISOLATED REDEVELOPMENT OF hTHUNDERSTORMS REMAINS POSSIBLY BUT SHOULD BE VERY LIMITED. THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AROUND 6 AM. RNM
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 2:31 AM EST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
SCZ001>008-010>013-019-280830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 230 AM EST MON MAR 28 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH THE UPSTATE HAS EXPIRED... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 400 AM... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL... EXTENDED FROM NEAR THE CITY OF GREENVILLE ACROSS ANDERSON INTO CENTRAL GEORGIA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH AND HAD DECREASED IN INTENSITY DURING THE PAST HOUR. INDIVIDUAL STORMS WITHIN THIS LINE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. REPORTS OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS WITH THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED DURING THE PAST HOUR. WINDS GUSTED TO AROUND 45 MPH AT THE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG AT 1 AM AND A REPORT WAS RECEIVED OF ROOF DAMAGE AND A TREE DOWN JUST NORTH OF GREER NEAR BLUE RIDGE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DECREASE SLOWLY IN INTENSITY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS...HOWEVER STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL REMAIN POSSIBLE ALONG AND NEAR THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ROBBINS/GSP
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 2:59 AM EST, 3 hours 59 minutes before
SCZ001>008-010>013-019-280930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 300 AM EST MON MAR 28 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 4 AM... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF THE CITY OF ANDERSON SOUTHWEST ACROSS IVA AND STAR INTO NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORM WITH THIS LINE WAS OVER THE CITY OF ANDERSON. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT CENTRAL AND EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY...AND SOUTHERN GREENVILLE AND ABBEVILLE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERTORMS. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD ALSO BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OF ROADWAYS...SMALL STREAMS... AND LOW LYING AREAS. ROBBINS/GSP
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 4:21 AM EST, 2 hours 37 minutes before
SCZ001>008-010>013-019-281130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 420 AM EST MON MAR 28 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA TODAY... A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POSSIBLY STRONG...EXTENDED FROM CHEROKEE ACROSS SPARTANBURG...LAURENS...AND ABBEVILLE COUNTIES. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH AND SHOULD ALSO AFFECT UNION AND GREENWOOD COUNTIES BY 6 AM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERTORMS. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD ALSO BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE FLOODING...ESPECIALLY OF ROADWAYS...SMALL STREAMS... AND LOW LYING AREAS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALLOW EXTRA TIME FOR TRAVEL. OTHER SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED IN OCONEE... PICKENS...ANDERSON AND GREENVILLE COUNTES. ROBBINS/GSP
Special weather statement, Mar 28, 6:01 AM EST, 57 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Graham | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 7:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 7:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 7:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon, Swain | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 8:43 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Macon | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Madison | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 9:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 9:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Jackson | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 9:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Clay, Macon | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison, Yancey | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Watauga | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Ashe | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham, Jackson, Swain | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Madison, Yancey | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Ashe, Watauga | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 49 min |
| Mar 27, 9:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 10:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.