Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2005, 2:08 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 71 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
- May 19, 2005, 2:08 PM EDT (18:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2005, 3:19 PM EDT
- In force
- 71 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:08 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 623 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 19, 11:03 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 11:03 AM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 3:52 AM EDT, 10 hours 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 352 AM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-200800- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 352 AM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS AN INCREASING CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...BECOMING LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL OVERNIGHT. SOME STORMS ARE LIKELY TO CONTAIN AT LEAST SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY...WITH A DECREASING CHANCE FRIDAY NIGHT. THERE IS ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. RB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 19, 1:24 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 124 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 NCZ034-035-054>056-066>068-191830- ALEXANDER-BURKE NC-CALDWELL-CATAWBA-CLEVELAND-MCDOWELL-POLK NC- RUTHERFORD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HICKORY...MARION...MORGANTON... RUTHERFORDTON...SHELBY...TRYON 124 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF THE FOOTHILLS IN NORTH CAROLINA. STORMS IN CALDWELL COUNTY...NEAR COLLETTSVILLE AND EAST OF BLOWING ROCK...WERE DRIFTING EAST AND WERE LIKELY PRODUCING SMALL HAIL. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WERE ALSO INDICATED. ISOLATED STORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE EDGE OF THE MOUNTAIN RANGE...SOUTH THROUGH RUTHERFORD...HENDERSON...AND TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 4:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba | 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.