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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 2, 1994Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1994, 5:39 PM EDT for Cherokee County, Clay County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 min.

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The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1994, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1994, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 269 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1994-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1219 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1994-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens52 min
Jun 2, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee46 min

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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.