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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 4, 1994Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1994, 9:03 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1994, 9:03 PM EDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1994, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Cleveland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 130 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
130 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1052 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLT 050104
SVRCLT
NCC045-050145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
903 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM EDT
FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CLEVELAND COUNTY
 
AT 903 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN
CLEVELAND COUNTY NEAR SHELBY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTH AT
10 MPH.
 
EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MUST BE ALERT FOR
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. BE ALERT TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
HEAVY RAIN WHICH CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
 
THIS IS A SLOW MOVING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH MAY ALSO CAUSE
FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...LOW AREAS...AND UNDERPASSES.
 
JS

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, Jun 4, 6:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
636 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 1994

EVENT
505 PM EDT    LINCOLN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED SEVERAL TREES
              DOWN IN LINCOLNTON IN CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY.

JS
Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
636 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 1994

EVENT
505 PM EDT    LINCOLN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED SEVERAL TREES
              DOWN IN LINCOLNTON IN CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY.

JS
Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
705 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 1994

EVENT
655 PM EDT    CATAWBA COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL
              AT LITTLE MOUNTIAN AIRPORT NEAR DENVER AND NICKLE SIZE
              HAIL IN THE SHERRILS FORD AREA. BOTH ARE LOCATED IN
              EASTERN CATAWBA COUNTY.
JS
Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
705 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 1994

EVENT
655 PM EDT    CATAWBA COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL
              AT LITTLE MOUNTIAN AIRPORT NEAR DENVER AND NICKLE SIZE
              HAIL IN THE SHERRILS FORD AREA. BOTH ARE LOCATED IN
              EASTERN CATAWBA COUNTY.
JS
Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:40 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
840 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 1994

EVENT
730 PM EDT    LINCOLN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED SOME VINYL
              SIDING TORN OFF A MOBILE HOME AND SEVERAL CHICKEN COOPS
              OVERTURNED IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY.

JS
Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
840 PM EDT SAT JUN 4 1994

EVENT
730 PM EDT    LINCOLN COUNTY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED SOME VINYL
              SIDING TORN OFF A MOBILE HOME ANDL SEVERAL CHICKEN COOPS
              OVERTURNED IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY.

JS

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.