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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 27, 1994Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1994, 5:53 PM EST for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 27, 1994, 5:53 PM EST (22:53 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 1994, 6:30 PM EST
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Gaston County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 12:00Z on 1994-03-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1994-03-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 542 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
534 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
542 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
777 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 1:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham, Swain58 min
Mar 27, 1:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Clay55 min
Mar 27, 3:35 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPJackson, Transylvania40 min
Mar 27, 3:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMacon59 min
Mar 27, 4:08 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPHenderson, Polk67 min
Mar 27, 4:45 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPRutherford45 min
Mar 27, 5:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland55 min
Mar 27, 5:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania37 min
Mar 27, 5:29 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGaston61 min
Mar 27, 5:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson66 min
Mar 27, 5:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania34 min
Mar 27, 6:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Graham63 min
Mar 27, 6:27 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGaston33 min
Mar 27, 6:31 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGaston59 min
Mar 27, 6:53 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPCabarrus52 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.