Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1994, 1:50 PM EST for Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 1:50 PM EST (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1994, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAVL 271851 SVRAVL NCC039-043-271945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 150 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...CHEROKEE COUNTY...CLAY COUNTY AT 150 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADARS INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHERN GEORGIA MOVING TOWARD CHEROKEE AND CLAY COUNTIES AT NEARLY 50 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANINED BY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...TORRENTIAL RAIN...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CHEROKEE...CLAY...GRAHAM... JACKSON...AND SWAIN COUNTIES. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ESPECIALLY ALERT...BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. R. JONES/AVL
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 50 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Jackson, Transylvania | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 3:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon | 59 min |
| Mar 27, 4:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 67 min |
| Mar 27, 4:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 45 min |
| Mar 27, 5:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 55 min |
| Mar 27, 5:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 5:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 61 min |
| Mar 27, 5:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 66 min |
| Mar 27, 5:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 5:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 34 min |
| Mar 27, 6:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Graham | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 6:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 59 min |
| Mar 27, 6:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 52 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.