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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

October 27, 1995Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 4:19 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1068 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion58 min
Oct 27, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPYork30 min
Oct 27, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester58 min
Oct 27, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson30 min
Oct 27, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville34 min
Oct 27, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenwood35 min
Oct 27, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.