Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 8, 2004, 6:10 AM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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
- Sep 8, 2004, 6:10 AM EDT (10:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2004, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:10 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 12:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 521 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KGSP 081010 TORGSP NCC119-081045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 610 AM EDT WED SEP 8 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 645 AM EDT * AT 605 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PINEVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MATTHEWS AROUND 615 AM EDT CHARLOTTE AROUND 620 AM EDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3513 8096 3502 8084 3520 8061 3543 8090 $$ LGL/NED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 8:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 9:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Rutherford | 4 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Gaston | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 7:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 3 hr |
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.