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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 6, 1995Gaston County, Lincoln County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 10:23 PM EDT for Gaston County, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1995, 10:23 PM EDT (02:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1995, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gaston County, NC, Lincoln County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jul 6, 9:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 9:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 9:24 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 9:25 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

NCZ067-070215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
924 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995

AT 915 PM EDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW AN AREA OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS IN EASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY BETWEEN LOGAN AND
CAROLEEN. THIS AREA HAS BEEN STATIONARY FOR THE PAST TWO HOURS BUT IS
NOW SHOWING AN EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF APPROXIMATELY 5 MPH. RADAR RAINFALL
ESTIMATES OF NEAR ONE HALF INCH PER HOUR HAVE BEEN CONSISTENT OVER THE
PAST TWO HOURS.

RESIDENTS IN LOW LYING SECTIONS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND DRIVE ACCORDINGLY. SMALLER CREEKS AND
STREAMS MAY BRIEFLY RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS IN SOME OF THE LOWER AREAS.
RTD

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 10:05 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

NCZ056-068>072-082-070400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
1005 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995

...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS SECTIONS OF THE
FOOTHILLS AND SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 1000 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AROUND
MOORESVILLE IN SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTY SOUTH TO AROUND DAVIDSON
IN NORTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
AROUND SHELBY IN CLEVELAND COUNTY.

THE THUNDERSTORM WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN CABARRUS COUNTY
AROUND 1030 PM.

EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF
HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR RADIO ...TELEVISION OR YOUR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR FOR THE POSSIBLE ISSUANCE OF
WARNINGS.

JPW

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 10:06 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

NCZ056-068>072-082-070400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
1005 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995

...THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN CONTINUE ACROSS SECTIONS OF THE
FOOTHILLS AND SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 1000 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AROUND
MOORESVILLE IN SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTY SOUTH TO AROUND DAVIDSON
IN NORTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
AROUND SHELBY IN CLEVELAND COUNTY.

THE THUNDERSTORM WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHERN CABARRUS COUNTY
AROUND 1030 PM.

EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT PERIODS OF
HEAVY RAIbN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR RADIO ...TELEVISION OR YOUR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR FOR THE POSSIBLE ISSUANCE OF
WARNINGS.

JPW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 10:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	55 min
Jul 7, 2:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	2 hr

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1995 Every 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.