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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 13, 1995Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 3:56 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Caldwell County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 1995-05-13Temperature 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 1995-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 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
1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
368 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 13, 3:16 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
NCZ033-034-050-132015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
313 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995

AT 310 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN
MITCHELL AND AVERY COUNTIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. THEY WERE MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND
POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TV FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
HM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery40 min
May 13, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell, Mitchell55 min
May 13, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell, Yancey63 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.