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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 15, 1995Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 3:21 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 1995, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
69 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Spartanburg County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 1995-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 626 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 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
626 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston47 min
May 15, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg35 min
May 15, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion35 min
May 15, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg, Union53 min
May 15, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Union57 min
May 15, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens64 min
May 15, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson48 min
May 15, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Laurens57 min
May 15, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville47 min
May 15, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville58 min
May 15, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg69 min

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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.