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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 14, 1995Clay County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 10:07 AM EDT for Clay County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 10:07 AM EDT (14:07 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 11:15 AM EDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Clay County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 701 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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, 1 hour 39 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

Special weather statement, May 14, 10:06 AM EDT, 1 minute before

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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, 9:38 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, 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, 1995 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.