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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 27, 1995Jackson County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1995, 7:03 PM EDT for Jackson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 27, 1995, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1995, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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 1995-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 342 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1995-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1220 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee29 min
May 27, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenwood50 min
May 27, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens50 min
May 27, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee59 min

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.