Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1994, 8:43 PM EST for Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1994, 8:43 PM EST (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1994, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Macon County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 504 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAVL 280144 TORAVL NCC113-280230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 843 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...MACON COUNTY AT 840 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN GEORGIA NEAR BLAIRSVILLE MOVING NORTHEAST 50 MILES AN HOUR. THIS TRACK WILL TAKE THE THUNDERSTORM INTO MACON COUNTY BY 855 PM THIS EVENING. TORNADOES WHICH OCCUR AFTER DARK ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. GET TO A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AbND CARS. IF DAMAGE OCCURS NEAR YOU...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WALK AROUND IN THE DARK. THERE MAY BE DOWNED POWER LINES AND OTHER HAZARDS THAT CANNOT BE SEEN. R. JONES/AVL
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 27, 5:31 PM EST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
530 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994
TIME EVENT
525 PM EST QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF
RUTHERFORD COUNVTY. TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN
IN THE SAME AREA. REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTER.
EJCLocal storm report, Mar 27, 5:59 PM EST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 557 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 OTHER REPORTS... 438 PM QUARTER HAIL HIGHWAY 11 AND 14 NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY. 415 PM DIME HAIL 5 N OF PICKENS. 445 PM POSSIBLE TORNADO OAK GROVE AREA NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES. 455 PM TORNADO MAYBE TWO ARROWOOD CHURCH AREA NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY. 510 PM DIME HAIL SUGAR CREEK 3 WEST GSP. 517 PM 1 INCH HAIL GREER 519 PM DIME TO NICKEL HAIL 2 N GREER 515 PM TORNADO HIGHWAY 221 AREA NORTHWEST CHEROKEE COUNTY. ANOTHER TOUCHDOWN A BIT EARLIER NEAR CHESNEE 535 PM VEHICLES BLOWN OFF ROAD EXIT 70 HIGHWAY I-26. 545 PM 3 FOOT OAK AND OTHER DAMAGE COWPENS AREA SPARTANBURG COUNTY. 505 PM SEVERAL REPORTS WIND DAMAGE IN AND AROUND CITY OF GREENVILLE. W. JONES/GSP
Local storm report, Mar 27, 6:45 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 557 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 OTHER REPORTS... 555 PM PROBABLE TORNADO GAFFNEY TO BLACKSBURG...NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN...SOME hLARGE TREES...ONE PERSON TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL WHEN TREE FELL ON CAR. MANY SIGHTINGS OF FUNNEL AND ROTATION LOW TO GROUND. W. JONES/GSP
Local storm report, Mar 27, 6:52 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
650 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994
645 PM MECKLENBURG COUNTY POLICE REPORTED A TORNADO
TOUCHDOWN IN CENTRAL PORTION OF CHARLOTTE. HEAVY
STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES.
JSLocal storm report, Mar 27, 7:34 PM EST, 1 hour 9 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
732 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994
TIME EVENT
712 PM EST DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN TULULA IN SOUTHEASTERN
GRAHAM COUNTY. REPO>RTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTER.
EJCSpecial weather statement, Mar 27, 8:02 PM EST, 41 minutes before
SCZ001-002-003-004-005-006-007-008-010-011-012-013-019-260230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 800 PM EST SUN MAR 27 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL UPSTATE COUNTIES UNTIL 200AM... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 400AM... THE TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT SUNDAY AFTERNOON HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 200AM MONDAY MORNING FOR ALL COUNTIES IN THE UPSTATE. AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN GEORGIA THIS EVENING AND ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 50 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAUSING DAMAGE THROUGH NORTHERN GEORGIA AND SHOULD BE MOVING INTO THE UPSTATE SOMETIME AROUND 900 PM. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION WITH A POTENTIAL FOR LARGE TORNADOES. THE SEVERE WEATHER AND FLASH FLOOD THREAT WILL CONTINUE INTO THE NIGHT. UPSTATE RESIDENTS SHOULD KEEP CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE NECESSARY ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOjR YOUR AREA. LEFKOF/GSP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 7:05 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Graham | 25 min |
| Mar 27, 7:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba | 50 min |
| Mar 27, 7:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 57 min |
| Mar 27, 7:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon, Swain | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Madison | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 9:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 9:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Jackson | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 9:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Clay, Macon | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison, Yancey | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Watauga | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Ashe | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Graham, Jackson, Swain | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:27 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Madison, Yancey | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mitchell | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Ashe, Watauga | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Transylvania | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 7:26 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 49 min |
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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.