Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Aug 31, 1994, 5:26 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 1994, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 KAVL 312128 TORAVL NCC027-312200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 526 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...EASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY AT 522PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN THE ZACKS FORK SECTION OF CALDWELL COUNTY EAST OF LENOIR. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED. PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO A BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GETB OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A DITCH. HM &
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 31, 5:10 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
NCZ034-066-067-312215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 510 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994 AT 505 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CALDWELL COUNTY EAST OF LENOIR. ANOTHER WAS IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY EAST OF RUTHERFORDTON. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG STORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. HM
Special weather statement, Aug 31, 5:12 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
NCZ034-066-067-312215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 510 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994 AT 505 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CALDWELL COUNTY EAST OF LENOIR. ANOTHER WAS IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY EAST OF RUTHERFORDTON. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STRONG STORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN AS WELL AS DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. HM
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.