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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 16, 1994Union County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1994, 3:34 PM EDT for Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 1994, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1994, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Union County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1994-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 19 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Athens Municipal, GA at 12:00Z on 1994-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 161934
TORGSP
SCC087-162030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
334 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...UNION COUNTY
 
RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN UNION COUNTY. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH TORNADO DAMAGE IN OTHER
COUNTIES. THE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE AREA NORTH OF WHITMIRE TO CARLISLE
AND THE STATE PARK FIRST...AND THEN POSSIBLY MOVE NORTH INTO OTHER PARTS
OF THE COUNTY.
 
TORNADOES IN TROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEMS USUALLY DEVELOP QUICKLY...
MOVE RAPIDLY...AND CAN OCCUR REPEATEDLY FROM THE SAME BAND OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA AND ARE CLOSE
TO A THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER UNTIL IT PASSES.
 
W. JONES/GSP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 3:46 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson59 min
Aug 16, 4:26 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee64 min
Aug 16, 4:31 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion44 min
Aug 16, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg47 min
Aug 16, 5:47 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee58 min
Aug 16, 5:53 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg67 min
Aug 16, 7:04 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee, Union56 min
Aug 16, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg44 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.