Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2005, 2:26 PM EDT for Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2005, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2005, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Transylvania County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 1178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 061826 SVRGSP NCC175-061930- /O.NEW.KGSP.SV.W.0071.050606T1826Z-050606T1930Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 226 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 219 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROSMAN...OR ABOUT NEAR BREVARD...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CEDAR MOUNTAIN AND LITTLE RIVER AROUND 300 PM EDT... PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 3527 8285 3506 8288 3514 8256 3532 8263 $$ RWH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KGSP 061856 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 255 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 NCC175-061930- /O.CON.KGSP.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-050606T1930Z/ TRANSYLVANIA NC- 255 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY... AT 249 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROSMAN...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF BREVARD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN AROUND 310 PM EDT... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 3527 8285 3506 8288 3514 8256 3532 8263 $$ RWH
000 WWUS52 KGSP 061926 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 325 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 NCC175-061935- /O.EXP.KGSP.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-050606T1930Z/ TRANSYLVANIA NC- 325 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 330 PM EDT... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED...AND IS MOVING OUT OF THE COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3527 8285 3506 8288 3514 8256 3532 8263 $$ RWH
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 Jun 6, 10:54 AM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 10:54 AM EDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1054 AM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 .SHORT TERM (REST OF TODAY)... VISIBLE SATELLITE SHOWING VALLEY FOG MIXING WITH RIDGETOP CU DEVELOPING ATTM. RADAR COMPOSITE SHOWS ISO SHRA DEVELOPING ALONG THE TN/NC LINE. CAPES ESTIMATED BY THE LAPS RANGE FROM 2500 EAST TO 1000 J/KG WEST. EXPECT THAT THE HIGHER ELEVATION WILL SEE DEEP CONVECTION EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH WEAK STEERING FLOW...CONVECTION EAST OF THE MTNS WILL REMAIN LIMITED TO THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL ADJUST GRIDS TO ADD SOME TIMING. BASED ON OBS AND MOS TRENDS WILL INCREASE MAX TEMPS A CLICK OR TWO...EAST OF THE MTNS WILL FORECAST TEMPS FROM U80S TO AROUND 90. WITH DWPTS EXPECTED TO MIX DOWN TO MID TO UPPER 60S SREF ADVERTISES CAPES BUILDING TO 2500-3000 BY LATE AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...WITH LACK OF TRIGGER AND SLOW STEERING FLOW WILL FORECAST ONLY SCATTERED COVERAGE. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 328 AM EDT MON JUN 6 2005) SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... SOME ROUGE VERY WEAK RETURNS NOTED WITHIN THE LINGERING WEAK INSTABILITY JUST SW OF THE CWFA...BUT WILL GENERALLY ORIENT POPS INTO THE FAVORED DIURNAL TIMEFRAME TODAY. STILL SOME SEMBLANCE OF UPPER RIDGING CONTINUES AND FLOW IS AGAIN EXPECTEDLY VERY WEAK. FEEL CVRG WILL BE GREATER THAN YESTERDAY GIVEN LESS CAPPING... POSSIBLE LEE TROUGHING AND PERHAPS SOME EASTERLY FLOW...AS PER 00Z NAM. NOT AS MUCH DRIER AIR/THETA-E LAPSES NOTED IN THE MID-LVLS TODAY...WHICH AIDED IN A FEW PULSE SVR STORMS ON SUNDAY...BUT GIVEN OVERALL GREATER CVRG OF STORMS...AN ADDITIONAL 2 OR 3 COULD FORM THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. THROUGH THE REST OF THE SHORT RANGE...TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY... LITTLE CHANGE IN OUR SUMMERTIME WEAK FLOW REGIME AND DAILY BOUTS OF MODERATE INSTABILITY...BUT THE TREND IS PROGRESSIVELY MORE MOIST WITH A PERSISTENT ATLANTIC TRAJECTORY. MODEL TIME HEIGHTS INDICATE THE TREND TOWARD AN EASTERLY SFC-70H FLOW TUESDAY AND AN EVEN DEEPER SSELY FLOW BY WEDNESDAY. ALL THIS EQUATES TO AT LEAST SCATTERED TSTMS EACH DAY...AND PERHAPS STORMS LINGERING INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)... EAST ATLANTIC HIGH TO REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD...KEEPING THE REGION IN MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE PRIMED FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUT WITH WEAK SHORTWAVES ALOFT STAYING MAINLY N OF AREA...AND NO SURFACE BOUNDARIES TO SPEAK OF...ANY SIGNIFICANT FORCING MECHANISM WILL BE ABSENT. DIURNAL HEATING AND WEAK OROGRAPHICS WILL BE THE MAIN INFLUENCES DRIVING CONVECTION...AND IT APPEARS JUST ABOUT ANY WEAK SHORTWAVE ALOFT WILL BE ENOUGH TO HELP INITIATE CONVECTION DURING THE LATE AFTN-EARLY EVE PERIOD. WITH CONTINUING WEAK UPPER FLOW EXPECTED...ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED FLOODING. AVIATION... PLENTIFUL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND LIGHT WIND SHOULD ALLOW MVFR FOG TO GROW IN COVERAGE IN THE PRE DAWN HOURS. EXPECT KAVL AND KAND TO ONCE AGAIN HAVE IFR VISIBILITY AT TIMES UNTIL 12Z OR SO. LIKE YESTERDAY...FOG SHOULD BURN OFF QUICK. MAIN QUESTION FOR TODAY WILL BE THE COVERAGE OF DEEP CONVECTION IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS ALOFT...LESS OF CAP...AND A BIT MORE LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS SHOULD ALLOW FOR MORE STORMS THAN YESTERDAY. NOT CONVINCED THAT CONVECTION WILL BEGIN AS EARLY AS THE ETA SHOWS AND WILL KEEP VCTS OUT UNTIL MID AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE...AFTER CONVECTION AND DEBRIS CLOUDS DISSIPATE...COULD SEE ANOTHER ROUND OF MVFR FOG EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...NED
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 6, 6:12 AM EDT, 8 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 612 AM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-071012- 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- 612 AM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A COUPLE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OR HAIL...ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY DAILY CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN ALL THIS WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 56 min |
| Jun 6, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 67 min |
| Jun 6, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham | 62 min |
| Jun 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 61 min |
Nearby
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.