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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 1, 1995Cherokee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 1, 1995, 9:08 PM EDT for Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 1995, 9:08 PM EDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 1995, 9:51 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Cherokee County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 1, 9:25 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Gaffney To, SC	Supercell thunderstorm which lasted for many hours developed west of Pickens and produced two tornadoes in the upstate. The first tornado was weak but still caused nuisance type damage - blowing out underpinning from mobile homes, blowing over sheds, etc. Th

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 565 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 020110
TORGSP
SCC021-020200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
908 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY
 
WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN WESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTY.
THIS TORNADO WILL MOVE EAST AT 60 MPH MOVE ACROSS THE CITIES OF
GAFFNEY AND BLACKSBURG BY 930 PM.
 
 
PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE
ACTION TO PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF
BUILDINGS...COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOvT GO NEAR DOORS OR WINDOWS. GET
OUT OF MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. GET INTO A STURDY BUILDING OR A
DITCH.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 9:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Anderson	45 min
May 1, 10:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Laurens	47 min
May 1, 10:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenwood	43 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1995 Every tornado warning in 1995 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.