Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 465

June 22, 20014 counties in Georgia; 44 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 22, 2001, 1:30 PM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia; 44 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 2001, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties

Banks County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Hart County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Anson 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, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg 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, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Pickens60 min
Jun 22, 4:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRNKAlleghany3 hr
Jun 22, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett, Wake34 min
Jun 22, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln42 min
Jun 22, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg63 min
Jun 22, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba, Iredell62 min
Jun 22, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester41 min
Jun 22, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield, Richland29 min
Jun 22, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion25 min
Jun 22, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion50 min

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 12:00Z on 2001-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1364 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2001-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1364 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow and 95 more5 hr
Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien and 64 more5 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.