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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 30, 1995Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1995, 7:52 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 1995, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1995, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Cleveland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 1995-04-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 86 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 1995-04-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 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
86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCLT 302353
SVRCLT
NCC045-010030-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
752 PM EDT SUN APR 30 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EDT
FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CLEVELAND COUNTY
 
AT 750 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED DEVELOPMENT OF A
NEW THUNDERSTORM NEAR SHELBY IN CLEVELAND COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY TO THE
SOUTHWEST INTO GASTON COUNTY.
 
 
EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MUST BE ALERT FOR
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. BE ALERT TO FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
HEAVY RAIN WHICH CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
 
 
 
GW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg35 min
Apr 30, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston40 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.