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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 22, 2005Madison County, North Carolina

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.

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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

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2005-04-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 485 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2005-04-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 283 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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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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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.