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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 8, 1995Greenville County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1995, 12:01 PM EST for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 8, 1995, 12:01 PM EST (17:01 UTC)
Expired
Mar 8, 1995, 12:30 PM EST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Greenville County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 259 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 1995-03-08Temperature 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 1995-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 081702
TORGSP
SCC045-081730-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1201 PM EST WED MAR 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTY
 
A TORNADO POSSIBY TOUCHED DOWN IN THE EAST SIDE OF GREENVILLE ABOUT 8
MILES SOUTH OR SOUTHWEST OF THE GREENVILLE DOWNTOWN AIRPORT. THE STORM
WAS REPORTED TO HAVE BLOWN DOWN SOME TREES. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS
MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST TOWARD THE EASTSIDE GREENVILLE COMMUNITIES AND
POSSIBLY NEAR THE GSP AIRPORT.
 
TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW
CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER NOW...DO NOT TRY TO WAIT ON THE
STORM AND DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN IT.
 
WAJ
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 12:32 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood28 min
Mar 8, 12:55 PM ESTTornado WarningGSPLaurens40 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes 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.