Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 1995, 6:28 PM EST for Abbeville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1995, 6:28 PM EST (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1995, 7:30 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Abbeville County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 409 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jan 19, 4:49 PM EST, 1 hour 39 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jan 19, 5:54 PM EST, 34 minutes before
NCZ065-066-067-064-200100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 554 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 AT 550 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING THE COUNTIES OF TRANSYLVANIA...HENDERSON... POLK...AND RUTHERFORD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...AND TV FOR LATER INFROMATION ON THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. JRB
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 5:56 PM EST, 32 minutes before
NCZ065-066-067-064-200100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC 554 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 AT 550 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING THE COUNTIES OF TRANSYLVANIA...HENDERSON... POLK...AND RUTHERFORD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...AND TV FOR LATER INFROMATION ON THIS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. JRB
Local storm report, Jan 19, 6:16 PM EST, 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 615 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 613 PM EST AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTER REPORTS DIME HAIL 3 NE ANDERSON AIRPORT IN ANDERSON COUNTY. WAJ/GSP
Local storm report, Jan 19, 6:22 PM EST, 6 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC 622 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 600 PM EST HOUSE TRAILER BLOWN OVER WEST UNION OCONEE COUNTY WITH ONE POSSIBLE INJURY. TREES BLOWN DOWN HERE AND THERE ACROSS THE COUNTY. TIME APPROXIMATE. WAJ/GSP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 4:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 55 min |
| Jan 19, 5:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee | 58 min |
| Jan 19, 5:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 68 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.