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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 28, 1994McDowell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1994, 7:05 PM EDT for McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1994, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1994, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County McDowell County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 199 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

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 28, 5:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 6:25 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 6:26 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:02 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:04 PM EDT, 1 minute before

NCZ053-065-064-290000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
702 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 1994

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT...

AT 700 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN OVER EASTERN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY MOVING EAST...INTO SOUTHERN
HENDERSON COUNTY...AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING.

SKYWARN SPOTTERS IN BREVARD REPORT VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND SMALL HAIL.

PEOPLE IN TRANSYLVANIA AND HENDERSON COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ESPECIALLY
ALERT...LIGHTNING STRIKE DETECTION SYSTEM INDICATES 20 TO 30 CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES EVERY 5 MINUTES.

BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE AREA IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES.

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

NCZ056-068>074-082>084-290030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
705 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY IN SOUTH
CAROLINA UNTIL 11 PM.  STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS
THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHWESTERN SOUTH
CAROLINA.  A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED ALSO TO THE WEST OF
CLEVELAND COUNTY AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE COUNTY BY 715 PM TO THE
NORTHWEST OF SHELBY.

MUCH OF THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA
WERE IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THIS EVENING.  MANY OF THESE
STORMS HAVE PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER IN THOSE REGIONS ALREADY THIS
EVENING.

SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP TO THE EAST OF THE WATCH AREA.  THESE STORMS
WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING... AND HEAVY
DOWNPOURS.  IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES... PLEASE TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY.

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

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, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Madison	52 min
Jun 28, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	50 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.