Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1994, 4:31 PM EDT for Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1994, 4:31 PM EDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 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, 8.5 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.
- 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
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 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, Aug 16, 4:04 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
404 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994
TIME EVENT
400 PM EDT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS REPORTS 3 TORNADOES ON GROUND
SANTUCK AREA MOVING NORTH. UNION COUNTY.
WAJLocal storm report, Aug 16, 4:06 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
404 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994
TIME EVENT
400 PM EDT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS REPORTS 3 TORNADOES ON GROUND
SANTUCK AREA MOVING NORTH. UNION COUNTY.
WAJSpecial weather statement, Aug 16, 4:07 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
NCZ056-068>074-082>084-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 407 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT AND SECTIONS OF THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA..CATAWBA...CLEVELAND...LINCOLN...GASTON...MECKLENBURG... CABARRUS...UNION...ANSON...STANLY...MONTGOMERY...RICHMOND...IREDELL AND ROWAN ALSO YORK COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR CHEROKEE...CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. AT 405 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH IMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS JUST SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTH INTO CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND WEST INTO THE MOUNTAIN AND FOOTHILLS OF BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. REPORTS FROM THE WEATHER OFFICE IN COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA REPORTED SEVERAL TORNADOES IN THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WILL EXPERIENCE HEAVY RAIN ... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR RADIO ... TELEVISION OR YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. JPW
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 4:11 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
NCZ056-068>074-082>084-DDHHMM- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 407 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM FOR MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT AND SECTIONS OF THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA..CATAWBA...CLEVELAND...LINCOLN...GASTON...MECKLENBURG... CABARRUS...UNION...ANSON...STANLY...MONTGOMERY...RICHMOND...IREDELL AND ROWAN ALSO YORK COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR CHEROKEE...CHESTER AND LANCASTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. AT 405 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN WITH IMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS JUST SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA. THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED SOUTH INTO CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND WEST INTO THE MOUNTAIN AND FOOTHILLS OF BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA. REPORTS FROM THE WEATHER OFFICE IN COLUMBIA SOUTH CAROLINA REPORTED SEVERAL TORNADOES IN THE CENTRAL SECTIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WILL EXPERIENCE HEAVY RAIN ... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL. CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR RADIO ... TELEVISION OR YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. JPW
Local storm report, Aug 16, 4:22 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
422 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994
TIME EVENT
415 PM EDT MONARCH AREA UNION COUNTY...APPARENT TORNADO DAMAGE.
TREES ACROSS ROADS AND OTHER...FROM AMATEUR RADIO.
WAJLocal storm report, Aug 16, 4:23 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
422 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994
TIME EVENT
415 PM EDT MONARCH AREA UNION COUNTY...APPARENT TORNADO DAMAGE.
TREES ACROSS ROADS AND OTHER...FROM AMATEUR RADIO.
WAJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Anderson | 59 min |
| Aug 16, 4:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 64 min |
| Aug 16, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 5:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 58 min |
| Aug 16, 5:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 7:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Union | 56 min |
| Aug 16, 7:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 44 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.