Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1994, 6:45 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1994, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1994, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cleveland County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 KCLT 162245 TORCLT NCC045-162315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 645 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...CLEVELAND COUNTY AT 645 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHERN CLEVELAND COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF BOILING SPRINGS. THIS TORNADO HAS PRODUCED DAMAGE. THIS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE NORTH. EVERYONE IN THE AREA BETWEEN BOILING SPRINGS AND THE SOUTHWEST SECTION OF THE CITY OF SHELBY SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW!!! TORNADOES IN TROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEMS USUALLY DEVELOP QUICKLY... MOVE RAPIDLY...AND CAN OCCUR REPEATEDLY FROM THE SAME BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA AND ARE CLOSE TO A THUNDERSTORM...TAKE COVER AND STAY THERE UNTIL IT PASSES. GWC &
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, 6:12 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
NCZ056-068>074-082>084-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 612 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. ...A TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 FOR GASTON COUNTY... AT 600 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF GASTONIA EXTENDING NORTH TO NEAR LINCOLNTON IN LINCOLN COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CONCORD IN CABARRUS COUNTY. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT AROUND 20 MPH. EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND AND SOME SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... AND LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR UPDATES ON THE MOST RECENT WEATHER INFORMATION OR IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. JPW
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:13 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
NCZ056-068>074-082>084-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 612 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. ...A TORNADO WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 FOR GASTON COUNTY... AT 600 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF GASTONIA EXTENDING NORTH TO NEAR LINCOLNTON IN LINCOLN COUNTY. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR CONCORD IN CABARRUS COUNTY. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT AROUND 20 MPH. EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND AND SOME SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... AND LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR UPDATzES ON THE MOST RECENT WEATHER INFORMATION OR IF WARNINGS ARE ISSUED. JPW
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:26 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
NCZ067-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 626 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 AT 625 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO RUTHERFORD COUNTY FROM UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. THERE WERE REPORTS OF A FUNNEL CLOUD FROM THIS STORM ON US 221. MOVEMENT WAS TO NORTH AT 15 MILE AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING UNTIL IT PASSES OR UNTIL THUNDER IS NO LONGER HEARD. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. REU
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 6:29 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
NCZ067-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 626 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 AT 625 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO RUTHERFORD COUNTY FROM UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. THERE WERE REPORTS OF A FUNNEL CLOUD FROM THIS STORM ON US 221. MOVEMENT WAS TO NORTH AT 15 MILE AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING UNTIL IT PASSES OR UNTIL THUNDER IS NO LONGER HEARD. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. REU
Local storm report, Aug 16, 6:38 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 638 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 TIME EVENT 636 PM EDT TORNADO ON GROUND IN BLACKSBURG AT THIS TIME. FROM 911. WAJ
Local storm report, Aug 16, 6:39 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 638 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994 TIME EVENT 636 PM EDT TORNADO ON GROUND IN BLACKSBURG AT THIS TIME. FROM 911. WAJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 4:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Union | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 7:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 7:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 31 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.