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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 30, 1995Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 1995, 8:40 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 20 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 1995, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Mecklenburg County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-05-01Temperature 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 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
1819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg49 min
Apr 30, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg, Union46 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.