Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2004, 5:52 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 10, 2004, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 273 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 10, 2:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 242 PM EDT SAT JUL 10 2004 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)... UPPER LEVEL RIDGE RETROGRADES ACROSS SE USA THROUGH SUN...FOLLOWED BY UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DIGGING ALONG EAST COAST. MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW MOISTURE SPREADING E ACROSS AREA...ESPECIALLY ALONG I-40 CORRIDOR. CONVECTION ALREADY ONGOING IN NC MTS...AND WILL FAVOR THIS AREA WITH SLIGHTLY BETTER POPS THIS EVENING...THOUGH STILL SMALL CHANCE. EVEN THOUGH SUNDAY FEATURES LITTLE IN THE WAY OF AN UPPER LEVEL TRIGGER...GUIDANCE RUNNING 40 POPS MOST OF AREA. WILL TREND IN THAT DIRECTION FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING POPS...PARTICULARLY N TIER... WHERE ANY WEAK IMPULSE WOULD TRACK. ON MON UPPER LEVEL TROUGH SUFFICIENTLY IN PLACE TO ALLOW IMPULSES TO REACH AREA...AND AGAIN MODEL GUIDANCE HAS 40 POPS...AND THIS TIME MODELS BRING AN IMPULSE SE TOWARD AREA. GFS STRONGER WITH THIS IMPULSE... POSSIBLY SUPPORTING EVEN HIGHER POPS...BUT WILL STAY WITH 40 POP FOR NOW....CONTINUING THROUGH EVENING. ANOTHER IMPULSE ARRIVES TUE...SUPPORTING CHANCE POPS...AGAIN HIGHEST ALONG N TIER...WHICH REAMINS CLOSER TO TRACK OF UPPER LEVEL ENERGY AND UNDER BEST MOISTURE. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES TO GRADUALLY COOL AS HEIGHTS FALL AND MOISTURE/CLOUD COVER INCREASE. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES GENERALLY HELD UP BY MOISTURE AND EVENTUALLY CLOUD COVER. && .LONG TERM (TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)... UPPER RIDGE AXIS REMAINS E OF REGION THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THIS WILL ALLOW OCCASIONAL WEAK SHORTWAVE ENERGY TO AFFECT THE CWA AS UPPER DISTURBANCES PASS MAINLY N AND E OF THE AREA. LIGHT W TO NW LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEK. DAYTIME HIGHS SHOULD REACH THE LOW 90S ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT WITH LOWS NEAR 70. ALTHOUGH DEEPER MOISTURE IS FORECAST TO BE SOMEWHAT LIMITED...SUFFICIENT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE IS EXPECTED FOR SCT AFTN-EVE CONVECTION EACH DAY. && .AVIATION... TSTMS WL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE MTNS DURING THE AFTN HOURS. HAVE INCLUDE A 2 HR TEMPO GROUP AT THE AVL AIRPORT FROM 18 TO 20 UTC. ALL OTHER TAFS CLOSE TO THE FOOTHILLS HAVE BEEN GIVEN A VCTS INTO THE EARLY EVENING. CLT ONLY HAS A CB LISTED AS BEST CONVECTIVE COVERAGE SHOULD BE WELL EAST AND WEST OF THE AIRPORT. LOOKS LIKE PATCHY MVFR FOG AGAIN TNGT. HAVE GONE WITH PREVAILING MVFR FOG AT ANDERSON...HKY AND AVL...THE USUAL SUSPECTS WHEN IT COMES TO FOG...LGT WNDS AND A HUMID AIRMASS. NO RESTRICTIONS ANYWHERE ELSE...THOUGH THAT COULD CHANGE IF ANY TAF SITES SEE RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...JAT LONG TERM...BPM AVIATION...BPM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 5:44 AM EDT, 12 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 544 AM EDT SAT JUL 10 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-110945- 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- 544 AM EDT SAT JUL 10 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE AREA. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE IN THE FORM OF FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. SLOW STORM MOVEMENT WILL ALSO CREATE A THREAT OF LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER THE NEXT 7 DAYS. THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING AND/OR ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. LANE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:17 PM EDT, 5 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 39 min |
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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.