Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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.
- 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
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.
| 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, 9:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 54 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 |
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.