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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 9, 1995Clay County, Macon County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1995, 8:03 PM EDT for Clay County, Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 9, 1995, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired: May 9, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clay County, NC, Macon County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 975 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 377 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 6.5

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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 9, 6:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 9, 7:53 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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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 10, 2:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	49 min
May 10, 10:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	42 min
May 10, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mitchell	43 min
May 10, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery	40 min
May 10, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	68 min
May 10, 7:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Catawba	28 min
May 9, 11:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	30 min
May 9, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	40 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.