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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 8, 1995Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 8, 1995, 12:55 PM EST for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 1995, 12:55 PM EST (17:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 1995, 1:35 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Laurens County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 256 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 688 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 081755
TORGSP
SCC059-081845-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1255 PM EST WED MAR 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...SOUTHERN LAURENS COUNTY
 
A THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS LAKE GREENWOOD INTO SOUTHWESTERN
LAURENS COUNTY...THIS STORM PRODUCED SOME DAMAGE ON THE EAST SIDE OF
GREENWOOD...POSSIBLY A SMALL TORNADO. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE
WATERLOO...CROSS HILL...MOUNTVILLE AREAS.
 
TORNADOES IN THE SOUTH ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN...LOW
CLOUDS...AND TREES. TAKE COVER NOWz...DO NOT TRY TO WAIT ON THE
STORM AND DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN IT.
 
 
W. JONES/GSP

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Mar 8, 10:08 AM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes before

NCZ001-033-053-055-034-060-061-058-052-065-059-063-062-048-054-
050-066-067-051-064-018-049-081715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ASHEVILLE NC
1007 AM EST WED MAR 8 1995

AT 1000 AM RAINFALL IN AVERY..BUNCOMBE AND TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES HAD
BECOME HEAVY IN AREAS AND APPROACHED FLOOD GUIDANCE VALUES. WEATHER
SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS
MOVING FROM WEST TO EAST THROUGH BUNCOMBE AND AVERY COUNTIES AT
APPROXIMATELY 25 MPH.

AT 945 AM THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN AVERY COUNTY REPORTED SOME FLOODING OF
SECONDARY ROADS IN THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY. NO
REPORTS OF FLOODING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED IN OTHER AREAS.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WNC THROUGH THIS
MORNING. RESIDENTS OF THE REGION ARE ADVISED TO KEEP A SHARP EYE ON
CONDITIONS IN THEIR AREA AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD FLASH
FLOODING BE OBSERVED OR A WARNING BE ISSUED.
RTD

Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:06 PM EST, 49 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1206 PM EST WED MAR 8 1995

DATE/TIME
 (EST)
NOON EST  PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR 1-85 AND MAULDIN ROAD IN
          GREENVILLE COUNTY.

RBN

Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:07 PM EST, 48 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1206 PM EST WED MAR 8 1995

DATE/TIME
 (EST)
NOON EST  PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR 1-85 AND MAULDIN ROAD IN
          GREENVILLE COUNTY.

RBN

Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:37 PM EST, 18 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1237 PM EST WED MAR 8 1995

DATE/TIME
 (EST)
1233 PM   AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LAKE
          ROBINSON JUST NORTH OF GREER IN EASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTY NEAR
          THE SPARTENBURG COUNTY LINE.  TREES WERE UPROOTED AND WINDS
          ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND 80 MPH AT THE SPOTTERS LOCATION.

RBN

Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:38 PM EST, 17 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1237 PM EST WED MAR 8 1995

DATE/TIME
 (EST)
1233 PM   AMATEUR RADIO SPOTTERS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LAKE
          ROBINSON JUSbT NORTH OF GREER IN EASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTY NEAR
          THE SPARTENBURG COUNTY LINE.  TREES WERE UPROOTED AND WINDS
          ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND 80 MPH AT THE SPOTTERS LOCATION.

RBN

Local storm report, Mar 8, 12:53 PM EST, 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1253 PM EST WED MAR 8 1995

DATE/TIME
 (EST)
1250 PM   EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO BETWEEN
          GREENWOOD AND CORONACO ON MILFORD SPRINGS ROAD TOWARD
          CORONACO.  CARPORTS HAVE BEEN DAMAGED AND TREES KNOCKED DOWN.
          DAMAGE OCCURRED AROUND 1243 PM

RBN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 12:01 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenville	29 min
Mar 8, 12:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenwood	28 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.