Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2004, 1:01 AM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
- May 9, 2004, 1:01 AM EDT (05:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2004, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Burke County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:04 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 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 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 090501
SVRGSP
NCC023-090545-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
101 AM EDT SUN MAY 9 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 145 AM EDT
* AT 101 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF MORGANTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF PLEASANT GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
PLEASANT GROVE AROUND 120 AM EDT.
VALDESE AROUND 135 AM EDT.
CONNELLY SPRINGS AROUND 140 AM EDT.
HILDEBRAN AROUND 145 AM EDT.
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 3564 8147 3556 8154 3556 8168 3560 8169
3560 8175 3558 8182 3562 8182 3577 8154
3578 8145 3572 8138
$$
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 40 min |
| May 8, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell | 40 min |
| May 8, 11:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell | 48 min |
| May 9, 12:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 46 min |
| May 9, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood | 38 min |
| May 9, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 54 min |
| May 9, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 46 min |
| May 9, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 43 min |
| May 9, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 44 min |
| May 9, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 51 min |
| May 9, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 54 min |
| May 9, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 55 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.