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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 1, 1995Anderson County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 1, 1995, 9:45 PM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 1995, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Anderson County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 725 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
725 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
336 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
8.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGSP 020146
TORGSP
SCC007-020230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
945 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...SOUTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY
 
GROUND REPORTS AND WEATHER RADAR CONTINUE TO MONITOR A TORNADO MOVING
EAST AT 60 MPH OUT OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE
SOUTHERN HALF OF ANDERSON COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT 15 TO 20 MINUTES.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS LAKE HARTWELL...STARR AND ANDERSON.
 
 
TORNADOES WHICH OCCUR AFTER DARK ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. GET TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY NOW!! STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS...BUT GET OUT
OF MOBILE HOMES AND CARS. IF DAMAGE OCCURS NEAR YOU...DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO WALK AROUND IN THE DARK. THERE MAY BE DOWNED POWER LINES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 9:08 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPCherokee43 min
May 1, 10:28 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville, Laurens47 min
May 1, 10:47 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood43 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.