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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 25, 1994Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1994, 12:53 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 25, 1994, 12:53 PM EDT (16:53 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 1994, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Spartanburg County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-09-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 171 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1994-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
171 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 251654
TORGSP
SCC045-083-251800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1253 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY
 
A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DEVELOPING IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CROSSING
GREENVILLE COUNTY. THE MOST LIKELY SPOT FOR A TORNADO IN THIS STORM
WOULD BE THE AREA FROM GREER TO DUNCAN AND LYMAN AREAS UNTIL ABOUT 115
TO 130 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST ABOUT 20 MPH.
 
PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF
BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCHH.
 
W. JONES/GSP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 24, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg43 min
Sep 24, 9:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee54 min
Sep 25, 11:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Pickens47 min
Sep 25, 12:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville48 min
Sep 25, 12:53 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenville32 min
Sep 25, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg52 min
Sep 25, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee47 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.