Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 2:26 AM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1994, 2:26 AM EDT (06:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1994, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cleveland County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 1328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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, Jun 27, 1:05 AM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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NCZ056-068>072-082-280600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 105 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM FOR CLEVELAND... CATAWBA... LINCOLN... GASTON... IREDELL... MECKLENBURG... ROWAN... CABARRUS... AND UNION COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA AND CHEROKEE... YORK... CHESTER... AND LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA... AT 100 AM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A WIDESPREAD AREA OF RAIN AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO MOVE EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INTO THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT. THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED INTO CENTRAL CATAWBA AND NORTHERN CLEVELAND COUNTY EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG AREA. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION WITH CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXTREMELY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. ANY THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DAMAGING HAIL... AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... AND LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR UPDATES ON THE MOST UP TO DATE WEATHER INFORMATION AND FOR POSSIBLE ISSUANCE OF WARNINGS. GK
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:33 AM EDT, 53 minutes before
NCZ053-055-034-060-061-058-065-059-063-062-054-066-067-270630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 133 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY UNTIL 300 AM EDT... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR POLK...HENDERSON...RUTHERFORD... JACKSON...TRANSYLVANIA...AND MACON COUNTIES UNTIL 600 AM EDT... AT 115 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM MCDOWELL COUNTY NEAR MARION ACROSS BUNCOMBE AND HENDERSON COUNTIES NEAR THE ASHEVILLE AIRPORT TO TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY NEAR ROSMAN. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. EARLIER IN THE EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSED FLOODING IN THE ANDREWS AREA AND BLEW SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN THE AREA OF THE HIWASSEE DAM. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT...BE READY TO MOVE INTO A SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. &
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:35 AM EDT, 51 minutes before
NCZ053-055-034-060-061-058-065-059-063-062-054-066-067-270630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 133 AM EDT MON JUN 27 1994 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY UNTIL 300 AM EDT... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR POLK...HENDERSON...RUTHERFORD... JACKSON...TRANSYLVANIA...AND MACON COUNTIES UNTIL 600 AM EDT... AT 115 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM MCDOWELL COUNTY NEAR MARION ACROSS BUNCOMBE AND HENDERSON COUNTIES NEAR THE ASHEVILLE AIRPORT TO TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY NEAR ROSMAN. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. THE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. EARLIER IN THE EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAUSED FLOODING IN THE ANDREWS AREA AND BLEW SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN THE AREA OF THE HIWASSEE DAM. PEOPLE SHOULD REMAIN ALERT...BE READY TO MOVE INTO A SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. &
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:15 AM EDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 118 min |
| Jun 27, 1:50 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham | 115 min |
| Jun 27, 3:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 44 min |
| Jun 27, 3:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 5:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 7:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Graham | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 11:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 12:58 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Pickens | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 1:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 69 min |
| Jun 27, 1:27 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 1:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 3:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 5:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 5:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 25 min |
| Jun 27, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.