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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 14, 1995Buncombe County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 9:38 AM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 9:38 AM EDT (13:38 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 10:45 AM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Buncombe County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 243 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 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 308 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 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 155 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAVL 141341
SVRAVL
NCC021-141445-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
938 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ASHEVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BUNCOMBE COUNTY
 
AT 937AM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL MOVING THROUGH BUNCOMBE
COUTY.
 
TREES DOWN IN NORTHEAST SECTION OF COUNTY.
 
THESE STORM WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM.  DO NOT HESITATE...TAKE COVER IN A
REINFORCED BUILDING IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH.  SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDHS...LARGE HAIL...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.  LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE AS SMALL TORNADOES.
 
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES.
 
BLL

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, 1 hour 10 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke61 min
May 13, 8:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln42 min
May 13, 10:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg51 min
May 13, 10:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion58 min
May 14, 8:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham, Haywood, Swain56 min
May 14, 8:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe48 min
May 14, 9:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson54 min
May 14, 9:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Jackson, Macon64 min
May 14, 9:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania64 min
May 14, 10:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham, Swain60 min
May 14, 10:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPClay68 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.