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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 10, 1995McDowell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1995, 6:26 PM EDT for McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1995, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County McDowell County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 1995-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 429 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 1995-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Madison69 min
Jul 10, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHaywood, Jackson, Transylvania66 min

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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.