Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 352
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 31, 2004, 9:10 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2004, 9:10 AM EDT (13:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2004, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties
Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Mecklenburg County, VA
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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.
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 59 min |
| May 31, 9:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 39 min |
| May 31, 10:01 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 44 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1053 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 10:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dade | 7 hr |
| May 31, 12:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 55 min |
| May 31, 1:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Banks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dawson and 21 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 2:06 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dade | 84 min |
| May 31, 4:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dawson and 21 more | 95 min |
| May 31, 4:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barrow, Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 6:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Crawford and 20 more | 119 min |
| May 31, 10:21 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Colquitt, Crisp, Decatur and 12 more | 54 min |
| May 31, 11:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 11:18 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 27 more | 27 min |
| May 31, 11:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 25 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 2:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 18 more | 54 min |
| May 31, 2:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Brantley, Chatham, Clinch, Echols, Lanier and 6 more | 63 min |
| May 31, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Camden, Charlton | 5 hr |
| May 31, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Colquitt and 15 more | 4 hr |
| May 31, 6:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Charlton | 92 min |
| May 31, 6:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Irwin and 5 more | 61 min |
| May 31, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Charlton, Echols | 4 hr |
| May 31, 5:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba and 21 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 7:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Davidson, Davie and 13 more | 2 hr |
| May 31, 12:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Robeson, Sampson | 29 min |
| May 31, 3:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank | 6 hr |
| May 31, 12:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bland, Buchanan, Carroll, Dickenson, Giles, Grayson and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 2:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bland, Buchanan, Dickenson, Giles, Grayson, Lee and 11 more | 2 hr |
| May 31, 2:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Caroline, Charles City, Chesterfield, Culpeper and 51 more | 37 min |
| May 31, 7:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Accomack, Albemarle, Arlington, Caroline, Culpeper, Essex and 31 more | 118 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.