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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2003, 1:22 PM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2003, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2003, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Buncombe County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 614 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 487 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 9:32 AM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 9:32 AM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 932 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 LOW LEVEL MOISTURE LIFTING INTO LOW CLOUDS OVER FOOTHILLS/PIEDMONT AND EXPECT IT TO TAKE AWHILE TO DECREASE. UPPER JET PULLING OFF TO THE EAST AND CONTINUED MID AND UPPER LEVEL DRYING STILL EXPECTED TODAY BUT LOW LEVELS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY MOIST. EXPECT SCT SHOWER/TSTMS THIS AFTN WITH HEATING. THERE IS ALSO A WEAK SFC BOUNDARY ACROSS CWA WHICH COULD HELP LIFT MOISTURE...COULD BE A FEW STRONG STORMS IF THEY ARE ABLE TO GET GOING LATER TODAY. CURRENT FORECAST IN GOOD SHAPE. WILL UPDATE BY LATE MORNING...MAINLY TO CLEAN UP WORDING. PLAN TO KEEP FLOOD WATCH UP FOR E CWA SINCE SOME RIVERS ARE STILL RISING AFTER LAST NIGHTS RAIN. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS MORNING FOR ZONES NCZ035>037... NCZ056>057...NCZ068>072...NCZ082. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS MORNING FOR ZONES SCZ006>009...SCZ014. RB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 7:10 AM EDT, 6 hours 12 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-081300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 710 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN AFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE PIEDMONT OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THIS MORNING. SEE CAEFFAGSP AND CAEFLSGSP FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS TODAY...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE DURING THE AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ISOLATED HEAVY RAINFALL... AS WELL AS GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. LANE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 11:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 3 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 48 min |
| Jun 8, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 43 min |
| Jun 8, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Rutherford | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 41 min |
Nearby
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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.