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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 17, 1995Jackson County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1995, 2:00 PM EDT for Jackson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1995, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1995, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 247 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe42 min
Jun 17, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMacon46 min
Jun 17, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania51 min
Jun 17, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMadison49 min
Jun 17, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery42 min
Jun 17, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson44 min
Jun 17, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery, McDowell, Mitchell41 min
Jun 17, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.