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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 31, 2004Haywood County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 3:11 AM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 31, 2004, 3:11 AM EDT (07:11 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Haywood County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 31, 1:40 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 277 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 504 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1119 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

236 
WFUS52 KGSP 310711
TORGSP
NCC087-310745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
310 AM EDT MON MAY 31 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 345 AM EDT.

* AT 310 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  WAYNESVILLE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF COVE CREEK...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CLYDE AROUND 315 AM EDT.
  CANTON AROUND 320 AM EDT.

A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN RECENTLY SIGHTED WITH THIS STORM.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

LAT...LON 3571 8292 3561 8283 3558 8278 3553 8281
          3550 8305 3567 8309

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 2:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood	50 min
May 31, 3:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Swain	40 min
May 31, 3:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood	45 min
May 31, 4:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham	38 min
May 31, 4:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Swain	59 min
May 31, 5:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Macon	45 min
May 31, 5:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mitchell, Yancey	52 min
May 31, 5:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	49 min
May 31, 7:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	47 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.