Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2005, 2:30 PM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2005, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2005, 2:53 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Haywood County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:37 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Canton, NC | CANTON FIRE DEPT REPORTED |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 181831
SVRGSP
NCC087-181930-
/O.NEW.KGSP.SV.W.0083.050618T1830Z-050618T1930Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
230 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT
* AT 224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CANTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF
WAYNESVILLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
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 3565 8295 3547 8287 3550 8278 3557 8278
3566 8288
$$
NED1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KGSP 181853
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
252 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005
NCC087-181902-
/O.CAN.KGSP.SV.W.0083.000000T0000Z-050618T1930Z/
HAYWOOD NC-
252 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HAYWOOD COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED TO THE EAST OF THE COUNTY AND HAS
ALSO WEAKENED. HAIL UP TO 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER WAS REPORTED BY THE
CANTON FIRE DEPARTMENT AT ABOUT 237 PM EDT.
OTHER STORMS NEARBY MAY STRENGTHEN...AND ADDITIONAL WARNINGS MAY BE
REQUIRED.
LAT...LON 3565 8295 3547 8287 3550 8278 3557 8278
3566 8288
$$
JONESWhat 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 18, 11:21 AM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 11:21 AM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
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
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:51 AM EDT, 10 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 351 AM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-190800- 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- 351 AM EDT SAT JUN 18 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 A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...SOME STORMS MAY BECOME QUITE STRONG WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY...THEN AGAIN ON FRIDAY...SOME STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG...WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. RB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 9:57 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 957 AM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-182000- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAYTON...CLARKESVILLE...TOCCOA... HARTWELL...ELBERTON...NEWLAND...STATESVILLE...MOCKSVILLE... SPRUCE PINE...CHEROKEE...WAYNESVILLE...ASHEVILLE...MARION... MORGANTON...HICKORY...SALISBURY...SYLVA...FRANKLIN...BREVARD... HENDERSONVILLE...COLUMBUS...RUTHERFORDTON...SHELBY...LINCOLNTON... GASTONIA...CHARLOTTE...CONCORD...MONROE...GREENVILLE... SPARTANBURG...GAFFNEY...ROCK HILL...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE... LAURENS...UNION...CHESTER...GREENWOOD 957 AM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK... AN UPPER TROUGH WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT. AT THE SAME TIME...MOISTURE WILL INCREASE OVER THE REGION AND EAST WINDS WILL GENERATE UPSLOPE ENHANCEMENT. AS TEMPERATURES RISE TODAY...THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE AND BY THIS AFTERNOON SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE PENNY SIZED HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE AREA OF GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 85 WHERE TEMPERATURES AND DEWPOINTS WILL BE HIGHER...BUT ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AS WELL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...ALL HAZARDS...OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. NED/RB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 67 min |
| Jun 18, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 4:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Macon | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 55 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.