Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1994, 5:47 PM EDT for Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1994, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1994, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cherokee County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGSP 162147 TORGSP SCC021-162245- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 547 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...CHEROKEE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL WERE FOLLOWING A FUNNEL CLOUD MOVING UP AND DOWN BUT NOT ON THE GROUND NEAR GAFFNEY. TORNADO DAMAGE OCCURRED NEAR COWPENS ABOUT 525 PM EDT. 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 AREAl AND ARE CLOSE TO A THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER UNTIL IT PASSES. W. JONES/GSP
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
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 4:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 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, 1 hour 25 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, 1 hour 24 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, 5:29 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
530 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994
TIME EVENT
445 PM EDT TORNADO NEAR PAULINE IN SPARTANBURG. DAMAGE TO HOME.
REPORTED BY DEVPUTY SHERIFF.
515 PM EDT POSSIBLE TORNADO WEST OF COWPENS NEAR PLEASANT VALLEY RD.
SPARTANBURG EOC REPORT.
CALLocal storm report, Aug 16, 5:40 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
540 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994
TIME EVENT
525 PM EDT DAMAGE TO FRAME HOME AND MOBILE HOME OFF FOUNDATION.
POWER LINES DOWN. ALL ON OLD PACOLET RD .SPARTANBURG EOC
REPORT.
CAL
RD.
SPARTANBURG EOC REPORT.
CALLocal storm report, Aug 16, 5:40 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
540 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994
TIME EVENT
525 PM EDT DAMAGE TO FRAME HOME AND MOBILE HOME OFF FOUNDATION.
POWER LINES DOWN. ALL ON OLD PACOLET RD .SPARTANBURG EOC
REPORT.
CAL
RD.
SPARTANBURG EOC REPORT.
CALThe 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, 4:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 44 min |
| Aug 16, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 47 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 |
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.