Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1994, 9:21 PM EDT for Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 69 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1994, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1994, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 69 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 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
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
Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 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.
JSLocal storm report, Jun 4, 6:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 44 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.
JSLocal storm report, Jun 4, 7:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 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.
JSLocal storm report, Jun 4, 7:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 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.
JSLocal storm report, Jun 4, 8:40 PM EDT, 41 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.
JSLocal storm report, Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDT, 38 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.
JSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 10:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Union | 62 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.