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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 19, 1995Oconee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1995, 10:20 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 1995, 10:20 PM EDT (02:20 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 1995, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Oconee County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 2446 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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, Aug 19, 5:02 PM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 7:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 19, 8:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

NCZ054-067-051 200100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
802 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995

AT 8:00 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
IN SOUTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY AND NORTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTIES OF
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.  ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE
INDICATED OVER SWAIN COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF
THE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY
RAINFALL OF UP TO AN INCH AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL.

DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINFALL RATE AND SLOW MOVMENT OF THESE STORMS PONDING
ON ROADS AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CAN BE EXPECTEvD.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER
STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

SM

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 8:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

NCZ058-065-062-066-067-051-200200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
859 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995

AT 8:55 WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...GRAHAM...SWAIN...HENDERSON...
POLK...AND RUTHERFORD. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20
MPH. THE STORMS IN GRAHAM COUNTY WILL MOVE INTO MACON COUNTY WITHIN
THE HALF HOUR.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO
50 MPH...RAINFALL OF UP TO AN INCH AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
SMALL HAIL.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER
STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

SM

Special weather statement, Aug 19, 9:39 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

NCZ-065-062-066-067-064-200230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
939 PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995

AT 9:30 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN MACON...
TRANSYLVANIA...HENDERSON...POLK...AND RUTHERFORD. THE STORMS ARE
MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO
50 MPH...RAINFALL OF UP TO AN INCH AN HOUR WITH LOCAL AMOUNTS OF 2
INCHES AN HOUR...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL.

PONDING ON ROADWAYS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS CAN BE EXPECTED DUE TO
THESE STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR ANY FURTHER
STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

SM

Local storm report, Aug 19, 10:06 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
1005  PM EDT SAT AUG 19 1995

TIME       ......CITY LOCATION...... STATE.......EVENT/REMARKS.........
           ....COUNTY LOCATION......

 910 PM       WAYNESVILLE             NC          LARGE TREES DOWN
               HAYWOOD COUNTY                     REPORTD BY SHERIFF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood	51 min
Aug 20, 1:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson	4 hr
Aug 19, 10:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	41 min
Aug 20, 2:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Abbeville	3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.