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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 28, 1994Madison County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1994, 5:23 PM EDT for Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1994, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1994, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 254 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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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 28, 5:08 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:08 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Graham	68 min
Jun 28, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	50 min
Jun 28, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	40 min
Jun 28, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	45 min
Jun 28, 7:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Rutherford	14 min
Jun 28, 7:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Henderson	38 min
Jun 28, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	46 min
Jun 28, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	64 min
Jun 28, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	67 min
Jun 28, 6:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Greenwood	2 hr
Jun 28, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenwood	2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1994 Every 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.