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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 21, 1995Cleveland County, Lincoln County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1995, 3:28 PM EDT for Cleveland County, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 1995, 3:28 PM EDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1995, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cleveland County, NC, Lincoln County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 1995-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1224 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 1995-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
1224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 1:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson, Polk59 min
Jul 21, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford46 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.