Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 1:59 PM EDT for Jackson County, Swain County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 1994, 1:59 PM EDT (17:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 1994, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, NC, Swain County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, Apr 27, 1:34 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
NCZ001-018-033-034-048>055-058>067-271830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 133 PM EDT WED APR 27 1994 AT 130 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AND LIGHTNING NETWORK INFORMATION INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE STATELINE EXTENDING FROM GRAYSON IN ASHE COUNTY TO RANGER IN SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WAS OVER THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK NEAR CLINGMANS DOME. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL IN PARTS OF EASTERN TENNESSEE...AS THEY MOVE INTO WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THEY MAY PRODUCE MORE HAIL. PEOPLE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE READY TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER`...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE STORM TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES AND WARNINGS. R. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 11:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Graham | 64 min |
| Apr 27, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell | 67 min |
| Apr 27, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 69 min |
| Apr 27, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 37 min |
| Apr 27, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon | 66 min |
| Apr 27, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 38 min |
| Apr 27, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 68 min |
| Apr 27, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 56 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.