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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 19, 1995Abbeville County, South Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-01-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 409 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 4:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg55 min
Jan 19, 5:02 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPOconee58 min
Jan 19, 5:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson68 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.