Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 273
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 22, 2001, 11:15 AM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 2001, 11:15 AM EDT (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2001, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 105 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Anson County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Carter County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Danville, VA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Sullivan | 38 min |
| May 22, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 48 min |
| May 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 30 min |
| May 22, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 42 min |
| May 22, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 27 min |
| May 22, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 34 min |
| May 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Stanly | 32 min |
| May 22, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 34 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 249 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 645 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 56 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 64 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington and 93 more | 7 hr |
| May 22, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Westmoreland | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.