Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 363
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Breathitt County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knott County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Surry County, NC, Union County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Rutherford | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breckinridge and 45 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 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.