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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 27, 2004Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2004, 11:07 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 27, 2004, 11:07 PM EDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Sep 27, 2004, 11:45 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), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 280307
TORGSP
NCC161-280345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1107 PM EDT MON SEP 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT

* AT 1100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES EAST OF
  CLIFFSIDE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF SHELBY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ELLENBORO AROUND 1115 PM EDT
  7 MILES NORTHEAST OF FOREST CITY AROUND 1125 PM EDT
  9 MILES NORTHEAST OF SPINDALE AROUND 1130 PM 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.

LAT...LON 3519 8178 3533 8170 3549 8169 3550 8200
      3524 8196 3519 8197

$$

BPM/NED

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 27, 9:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Jackson, Transylvania	4 hr
Sep 27, 9:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	6 hr
Sep 27, 10:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cleveland	42 min
Sep 27, 11:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg, Union	4 hr
Sep 28, 1:19 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Rowan	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.