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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 1, 1995Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 1995, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 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 00:00Z, 1.3 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-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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 565 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.

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, May 1, 5:15 PM EDT, 4 hours before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 6:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 1, 7:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

NCZ033-034-048>055-058-010030

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
6:55 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995

A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR THE FOLLOWING CO
T
CHEROKEE...GRAHAM...CLAY...MACON...JACKSON...TRANSYLVANIA...HENDERSON...
POLK

AT 6:50 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT TO MODERATE
RAIN WITH SOME EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS
OVER MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

THIS AREA IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO... AND TV FOR LATER
STATEMENTS.

SM

Special weather statement, May 1, 8:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

NCZ068-056-020100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
800 PM EDT MON MAY 01 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY
SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 11 PM EDT.

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN MOVING INTO
THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA....

AT 755 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING JUST SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE NEAR PINEVILLE. OTHER
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING JUST TO THE NORTH
OF SHELBY AND WEST OF SHELBY IN CLEVELAND COUNTY. OTHER SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST WEST OF HICKORY IN CATAWBA COUNTY.

THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE
CAROLINAS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AND
ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFIED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS WITH
HEAVY RAINFALL ... GUSTY WINDS ... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE
HAIL.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION OR WEATHER RADIO
FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JPW

Special weather statement, May 1, 8:51 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

NCZ056-068>072-082-020200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC
0850 PM EDT MON MAY 01 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR CHEROKEE COUNTY
SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 11 PM EDT.

...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN HAS MOVED INTO
THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT AND NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA....

AT 845 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
SOME WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM AROUND HICKORY IN CATAWBA
COUNTY SOUTH ACROSS WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY TO JUST NORTHEAST
OF SHELBY IN CLEVELAND COUNTY.

THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM AROUND GREENSBORO SOUTH TO
MONROE IN UNION COUNTY AND WEST INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.
ARE EXPECTED TO INTENSIFIED OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

EVERYONE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS WITH
HEAVY RAINFALL ... GUSTY WINDS ... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE
HAIL.

CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION OR WEATHER RADIO
FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JPW

Local storm report, May 1, 9:01 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
900 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995

DELAYED REPORT FROM 911...

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

  730 PM   SIX MILE                  SC   POSSIBLE SMALL TORNADO
05/01/95   COUNTY                         UPROOTED TREES AND CAUSED
                                          MINOR PROPERTY DAMAGE

W. JONES/GSP
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Lincoln	47 min
May 1, 9:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Gaston	46 min
May 1, 9:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	64 min
May 1, 10:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	68 min
May 1, 10:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Union	62 min
May 1, 9:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cherokee	43 min
May 1, 9:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Anderson	45 min
May 1, 10:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Laurens	47 min
May 1, 10:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenwood	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North 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.