Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 1995, 7:47 PM EST for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1995, 7:47 PM EST (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1995, 8:15 PM EST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gaston County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 317 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCLT 200049 RRA SVRCLT NCC071-200115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 747 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLOTTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EST FOR EVERYONE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NORTH CAROLINA ...GASTON COUNTY AT 730 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN GASTON COUNTY NEAR CROWDERS MOUNTAIN STATE PARK. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTH EAST AT 30 MPH. ALTHOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP... WITHOUT WARNING... FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. GUY
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, 5:54 PM EST, 1 hour 53 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, 1 hour 51 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, 1 hour 31 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, 1 hour 25 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
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 6:50 PM EST, 57 minutes before
NCZ-056-068>072-082-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 650 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 .AT 645 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE FIRST EXTENDS FROM HICKORY SOUTH THROUGH CENTRAL LINCOLN AND GASTON COUNTIES AND INTO CENTRAL YORK AND CHESTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS REPORTED BY ONE OF OUR SPOTTERS AT ROCK HILL. .A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING. .THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS ..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND SMALL HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..MOVE INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. .STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO..AND TV FOR LATER INFORMATION. GW
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 7:00 PM EST, 47 minutes before
NCZ-056-068>072-082-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLOTTE NC 650 PM EST THU JAN 19 1995 .AT 645 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. THE FIRST EXTENDS FROM HICKORY SOUTH THROUGH CENTRAL LINCOLN AND GASTON COUNTIES AND INTO CENTRAL YORK AND CHESTER COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN WAS REPORTED BY ONE OF OUR SPOTTERS AT ROCK HILL. .A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING. .THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS ..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING..AND SMALL HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..MOVE INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. .STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO..LOCAL RADIO..AND TV FOR LATER INFORMATION. GW
Nearby
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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.