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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 10, 1995Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 10:18 AM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 10:18 AM EDT (14:18 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 11:00 AM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Mecklenburg County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 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 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 664 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 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 139 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
664 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPClay, Macon57 min
May 10, 2:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston49 min
May 10, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMitchell43 min
May 10, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery40 min
May 10, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, Caldwell68 min
May 10, 7:17 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCatawba28 min
May 9, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg30 min
May 9, 11:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Spartanburg40 min

Nearby

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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.