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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 16, 1994Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1994, 7:46 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 1994, 7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1994, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Spartanburg County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Athens Municipal, GA (KAHN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 162 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

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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, 6:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 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, 1 hour 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, 7:09 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
709 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994

TIME        EVENT

705 PM EDT  POSSIBLE TOUCHDOWN NORTHWEST OF LOCKHART MOVING TOWARD
            CHEROKEE COUNTY.

WAJ
Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:11 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
709 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994

TIME        EVENT

705 PM EDT  POSSIBLE TOUCHDOWN NORTHWEST OF LOCKHART MOVING TOWARD
            CHEROKEE COUNTY.

WAJ
Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:19 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
719 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994

TIME                 EVENT
630 PM EDT           CONFIRMED TORNADO REPORTED BY POLICE OVER SOUTHERN
                     CLEVELAND COUNTY SOUTH OF THE CITY OF SHELBY.
                     A MOBILE HOME WAS OVERTURNED.

700 PM EDT           CONFIRMED TORNADO REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
                     OPERATORS OVER WESTERN CATAWBA COUNTY JUST SOUTH
                     OF THE CITY OF HICKORY. NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE
                     AT THIS TIME.

GWC
Local storm report, Aug 16, 7:20 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
719 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 1994

TIME                 EVENT
630 PM EDT           CONFIRMED TORNADO REPORTED BY POLICE OVER SOUTHERN
                     CLEVELAND COUNTY SOUTH OF THE CITY OF SHELBY.
                     A MOBILE HOME WAS OVERTURNED.

700 PM EDT           CONFIRMED TORNADO REPORTED BY AMATEUR RADIO
                     OPERATORS OVER WESTERN CATAWBA COUNTY JUST SOUTH
            B         OF THE CITY OF HICKORY. NO REPORTS OF DAMAGE
                     AT THIS TIME.

GWC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 3:34 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPUnion56 min
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

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1994Every tornado warning in 1994Tornadoes in 1994

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.