Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 9:06 AM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 9:06 AM EDT (13:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 526 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 14, 8:28 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
NCZ033-058-052-048-051-049-141330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 824 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 100 PM EDT... AT 817 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHWESTERN SECTION OF GRAHAM COUNTY AND SOUTHWESTERN SECTION OF SWAIN COUNTY. THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS TO 45 MPH... SMALL HAIL....DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN... WEATHER RADAR ALSO INDICATED HEAVY RAINSHOWERS ENTERING HAYWOOD...MADISON...YANCEY...AND MITCHELL COUNTIES... BRIEF FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND SOME ROADWAYS MAY OCCURE ALONG WITH MINOR MUD SLIDES IN VICINITY OF RECENT ROAD CONSTRUCTION AREAS. MOTORIST SHOULD USE CAUTION THIS MORNING TRAVELING IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO AND TV FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BLL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 61 min |
| May 13, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 42 min |
| May 13, 10:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 51 min |
| May 13, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 58 min |
| May 14, 8:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Haywood, Swain | 56 min |
| May 14, 8:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 48 min |
| May 14, 9:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 67 min |
| May 14, 9:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Jackson, Macon | 64 min |
| May 14, 9:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 64 min |
| May 14, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 60 min |
| May 14, 10:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Clay | 68 min |
| May 14, 11:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 55 min |
| May 14, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 60 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.