Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 301
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2004, 6:55 PM EDT for 43 counties in North Carolina; Cherokee County, South Carolina; Cocke County, Unicoi County, Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2004, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Cocke County, TN, Unicoi County, TN
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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.
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell, Yancey | 17 min |
| May 26, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 40 min |
| May 26, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 39 min |
| May 26, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Madison | 40 min |
| May 26, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 52 min |
| May 26, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 41 min |
| May 26, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 48 min |
| May 26, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 20 min |
| May 26, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 31 min |
| May 26, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 43 min |
| May 26, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 22 min |
| May 26, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 27 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashe, Avery, Watauga | 85 min |
| May 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Madison and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caswell, Granville, Person, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 26, 5:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chatham and 27 more | 63 min |
| May 26, 6:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avery, Burke, McDowell, Madison, Mitchell, Watauga and 1 more | 93 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2004Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2004
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.