Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2004, 5:35 PM EDT for Davie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2004, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Davie County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 653 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KGSP 042135
SVRGSP
NCC059-042230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
535 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
DAVIE COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 531 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES WEST
OF OVER MOCKSVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
MOCKSVILLE AROUND 540 PM EDT
FARMINGTON AROUND 555 PM EDT
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN THE COUNTY WILL ALSO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO
PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3598 8070 3585 8071 3589 8049 3595 8037
3604 8049
$$
MOOREWhat 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 Jul 4, 2:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 233 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... KGSP 88-D SHOWS A LINE OF CONVECTION SETTING UP ACROSS OUR WESTERN CWFA ASSOCIATED WITH WEAK MID LEVEL VORT OVER THE REGION AND OUT AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING TROF AXIS. UPSTREAM RADARS ALSO INDICATE SCATTERED CONVECTION DEVELOPING BEHIND THE MAIN BAND ORGANIZING IN OUR WESTERN ZONES. AIRMASS UNSTABLE NOW AHEAD OF THIS LINE. LAPS SOUNDINGS SHOW FAIRLY WARM MID LAYERS BUT WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH HEATING LAST COUPLE OF HOURS TO BREAK ANY CAP...AND THE SOUNDINGS CONFIRM CONTINUED ADVECTION OF DRIER MID LEVEL AIR INTO THE REGION. COULD SEE SOME WIND DAMAGE WITH ANY COLD POOLS...AND WE HAVE HEARD OF TREES DOWN UPSTREAM ACROSS NORTH GEORGIA WITH STORMS DEVELOPING THERE. WE WILL HOLD ONTO LIKELY POPS FOR THE UPSTATE AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA WEST OF A LINE FROM SPARTANBURG TO GREENWOOD. HIGH CHANCE ALL OTHER LOCATIONS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. AFTER 02Z...WE HAVE LOWERED POPS GREATLY BUT WE MAY HAVE HAD ENOUGH HEATING TO SUSTAIN CONVECTION THROUGH MIDNIGHT. COVERAGE COULD END UP BEING A LITTLE GREATER THAN ANTICIPATED IN THE WEST DEPENDING ON WHAT TRANSPIRES ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AHEAD OF A MAJOR VORTICITY CENTER WHICH APPEARS TO BE SENDING A SPRAWLING COLD POOL OUR WAY PER RADAR AND SATELLITE TRENDS. NEITHER THE RUC...ETA80... ETA40 OR GFS PRODUCES MUCH PRECIPITATION IN OUR REGION WITH THIS FEATURE. SUCEEDING SHIFT MAY NEED TO UPDATE EARLY TO INCREASE IF IT APPEARS CONVECTION WILL COVER A WIDER AREA. MODELS INSIST THAT THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE DRYING OUT AS THE TROF AXIS MAKES MORE ENROADS INTO OUR CWFA...BUT DRIER SURFACE AIR MAY BE CONFINED ONLY TO THE NORTHWEST ZONES. WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW AT SURFACE AND ALOFT WILL CAP OFF THE NEW WEEK...AND AFTER SEVERAL COOL DAYS RECENTLY...IT APPEARS TEMPERATURES ARE GOING TO RETURN TO ABOVE NORMAL. 80S MOUNTAINS TO 90S FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT MONDAY AND TUESDAY...OVERNIGHT MINS FALLING BACK ONLY INTO THE 60S WEST TO LOWER 70S SOUTH. SURFACE LAYER IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN MOIST...WITH HEAT INDICES OVER 100 FOR MOST OF THE SOUTHERN CWFA MONDAY (A FEW LOCATIONS IN THE UPSTATE AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA ACTUALLY REACH A FORECAST VALUE OF 105 MONDAY) AND SLIGHTLY COOLER HEAT INDICES FOR TUESDAY. MEANWHILE...LEE TROF SHOULD SET UP BUT MOISTURE MAY BE TOO MARGINAL FOR MORE THAN ISOLATED CONVECTION OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAINS. ANY FRONTS REMAIN WELL NORTH OF REGION THROUGH TUESDAY. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE OF RAIN WEST MONDAY AND TUESDAY. MOISTURE SHOULD RETURN TO ENHANCE PROSPECTS OF MORE CONCENTRATED CONVECTION WEDNESDAY...WITH TEMPERATURE COOLDOWN. && .LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)... THE 00Z GFS DEPICTS A SHEARING VORT AXIS ACROSS THE SRN APPALACHIANS WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY WITH A COLD FRONT STALLING JUST TO THE NORTH...WHICH SUPPORTS SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FOR THAT PERIOD. HOWEVER...NEW GUIDANCE RETURNS TO THE RECENT TREND OF BUILDING UPPER RIDGE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST LATE IN THE WEEK...WHICH SHOULD BE A BIT MORE UNFAVORABLE FOR DIURNAL CONVECTION. WITH THAT IN MIND...WILL LIMIT CHANCES TO THE MOUNTAINS BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...AND SLIGHT CHANCE ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT. BY SUNDAY...SOME WEAKNESS IS NOTED IN THE UPPER RIDGE...SO LOW CHANCE POP IN THE MEX GUIDANCE IS ACCEPTED. ONLY MINOR CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE TO TEMPS...ALTHO HIGH TEMP MIGHT NOT BE WARM ENOUGH LATE IN THE WEEK. && .AVIATION... BROKEN LINE OF CONVECTION SHOULD SWEEP EASTWARD ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE TAF PERIOD. WILL HANDLE THUNDERSTORMS WITH VC UNTIL TIMING CAN BE ASCERTAINED...AT WHICH POINT TAFS WILL BE AMENDED TO SPECIFY TIME WINDOW...WHICH SHOULD BE NO LONGER THAN TWO HOURS AT ANY SITE. CONVECTIVE LINE ORGANIZED AHEAD OF VORT LOBE THAT SHOULD MOVE EAST OF FORECAST AREA BY MID EVENING. CEILING/VIS SHOULD BE VFR EXCEPT IN TSRA. IN WAKE OF CONVECTIVE LINE...ONLY SCATTERED LOW CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED. INTERESTING WRINKLE FOR THE EVENING HOURS IS PROGRESSION OF MCS SEEN MARCHING ACROSS MS RIVER AT 18Z. AIR MASS OVER WEST SHOULD HAVE TIME TO RECOVER LATE THIS AFTERNOON...LEAVING A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE MCS TO MOVE RIGHT UP TO THE NC MTNS SOME TIME AFTER 00Z. THIS FEATURE IS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR IN THE TAFS...BUT COULD BE ADDRESSED IF CONVECTIVE TRENDS SUPPORT BRINGING IT ACRS THE MTNS DURING THE EVENING HOURS. OVERNIGHT...EXPECT MVFR FOG TO DEVELOP IN MANY SPOTS...BUT THAT SHOULD QUICKLY GIVE WAY TO VFR CONDITIONS SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE MONDAY. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...BURRUS LONG TERM...MOORE AVIATION...MOORE
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 4, 6:15 AM EDT, 11 hours 20 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 615 AM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-051014- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 615 AM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... LOCALLY DENSE FOG ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN VALLEYS AND EXTENDING EAST INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT...WILL GRADUALLY DISSIPATE THROUGH MID-MORNING AN UPPER LEVEL AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPSGSP...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON TODAY/S SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A DAILY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK...ESPECIALLY IN THE MOUNTAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 434 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 NCZ066>071-082-SCZ006>009-011>014-019-042130- ABBEVILLE-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER-CLEVELAND-GASTON-GREATER GREENVILLE- GREENWOOD-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MECKLENBURG-POLK NC-RUTHERFORD- SPARTANBURG-UNION NC-UNION SC-YORK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABBEVILLE...CHARLOTTE...CHESTER... GAFFNEY...GASTONIA...GREENVILLE...GREENWOOD...LAURENS...LINCOLNTON... MONROE...ROCK HILL...RUTHERFORDTON...SHELBY...SPARTANBURG...TRYON... UNION 434 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WINDS AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING MOVING ACROSS THE UPSTATE... AT 430 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ABBEVILLE...TO WARE SHOALS...TO LAURENS...TO GREER...MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH. THROUGH 530 PM... THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE EAST TO AFFECT LOCATIONS FROM GAFFNEY...TO UNION...TO LAKE GREENWOOD...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF SPARTANBURG...LAURENS...ABBEVILLE...AND GREENWOOD. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. BOATERS ON LAKE GREENWOOD SHOULD MOVE TO SHORE NOW. THESE STORMS MAY STRENGTHEN TO SEVERE LEVELS...AND WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED FOR SOME OF THESE AREAS LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LANE
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:49 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 449 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 NCZ034>036-054>056-042145- ALEXANDER-BURKE NC-CALDWELL-CATAWBA-IREDELL-MCDOWELL- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HICKORY...MARION...MORGANTON...STATESVILLE 449 PM EDT SUN JUL 4 2004 ...THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS... AT 440 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR ELLENDALE...TO LENOIR...TO MORGANTON. THROUGH 545 PM...THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL MOVE EAST TO AFFECT LOCATIONS FROM TAYLORSVILLE...TO CONOVER...TO PLEASANT GROVE...INCLUDING HICKORY AND VICINITY. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS OF UP TO 50 MPH... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND A BRIEF PERIOD OF TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WITH THIS AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS ON LAKE HICKORY SHOULD MOVE TO SHORE IMMEDIATELY. THE ATMOSPHERE IS FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. THESE STORMS MAY STRENGTHEN TO SEVERE LEVELS...AND WARNINGS MAY BE REQUIRED IN THESE AREAS THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LANE
Local storm report, Jul 4, 4:50 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
450 PM EDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0430 PM TSTM WND DMG ABBEVILLE 34.18N 82.38W
07/04/2004 ABBEVILLE SC TRAINED SPOTTER
TREES DOWN ON WEST PICKNEY STREET.
&&
SBKLocal storm report, Jul 4, 5:10 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
510 PM EDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0452 PM TSTM WND DMG SPARTANBURG 34.94N 81.93W
07/04/2004 SPARTANBURG SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
POWER LINES DOWN NEAR ROEBUCK.
&&
SBKLocal storm report, Jul 4, 5:12 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
512 PM EDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0503 PM NON-TSTM WND DMG GREENWOOD 34.19N 82.15W
07/04/2004 GREENWOOD SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
TREES DOWN IN GREENWOOD.
&&
SBKLocal storm report, Jul 4, 5:19 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
519 PM EDT SUN JUL 04 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0500 PM TSTM WND DMG ABBEVILLE 34.18N 82.38W
07/04/2004 ABBEVILLE SC COUNTY OFFICIAL
POWER LINES DOWN IN ABBEYVILLE.
&&
SBKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 61 min |
| Jul 4, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 74 min |
| Jul 4, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 53 min |
| Jul 4, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.