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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2005, 10:30 PM EDT for Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 22, 2005, 10:30 PM EDT (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2005, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Madison County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 22, 7:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 7:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 22, 5:55 AM EDT, 16 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 555 AM EDT FRI APR 22 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-240955- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 555 AM EDT FRI APR 22 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP BY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...WITH WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH...ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS FROM NOON TODAY THROUGH NOON SUNDAY. THE STRONG NORTHWEST FLOW WILL ALSO USHER IN VERY COLD TEMPERATURES...WITH FREEZING LOWS LIKELY TONIGHT ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...THE NORTHERN NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS...AND THE GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS FROM RABUN COUNTY TO NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY. FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON THE WIND AND FREEZE THREAT...PLEASE SEE THE LATEST URGENT WEATHER MESSAGE...NPWGSP...FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG. THE NORTHWEST WINDS WILL ALSO PUSH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE WESTERN SLOPES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS LATE TODAY THROUGH LATE SUNDAY. ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED...WITH 1 TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE NEAR THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS...AND 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE IN NORTHERN MOUNTAIN LOCATIONS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...SEE THE LATEST URGENT WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE...WSWGSP...FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... FREEZING TEMPERATURES WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SUNDAY NIGHT...AND PIEDMONT LOCATIONS MAY BE AT RISK AS WELL AS THE MOUNTAINS. TEMPERATURES THEN RECOVER THROUGH MID WEEK...AS ANOTHER STRONG STORM SYSTEM DEVELOPS IN THE PLAINS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE REGION FROM TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY AS THIS SYSTEM MOVES EAST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. GERAPETRITIS
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 22, 5:55 PM EDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
555 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0230 PM HAIL ANDERSON 34.52N 82.65W
04/22/2005 1.00 INCH ANDERSON SC NWS EMPLOYEE
QUARTER-SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN DOWNTOWN ANDERSON.
0420 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 NW GREENWOOD 34.21N 82.18W
04/22/2005 GREENWOOD SC FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
2 TREES DOWN ON HIGHWAY 225. ONE OF THE TREES PARTIALLY
COVERED THE ROADWAY.
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.