Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2005, 6:05 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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
- Jun 18, 2005, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2005, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
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 18, 3:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 318 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)... DEEP CONVECTION OVER THE MTNS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER THE MTNS THROUGH THIS EVENING...STORM MOTIONS E AROUND 10 KTS. LAPS INDICATES THAT CAPES RANGE FROM 300-500 OVER THE MTNS AND EASTERN PIEDMONT TO 1000-1500 J/KG OVER THE FOOTHILLS AND SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. STORMS MOVING OFF THE MTNS SHOULD THRIVE IN THE RICHER AIR OVER THE FOOTHILLS. WITH ADDITIONAL HEATING AND GENERATION OF OUTFLOWS...COVERAGE SHOULD INCREASE THROUGH THE MID EVENING. EXPECT THE ORDER OF COVERAGE TO FOLLOW HIGH TERRAIN...FOOTHILLS...SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY...WITH CONVECTION PINCHING NE ACROSS THE PIEDMONT THIS EVENING. HAYWOOD SVR STORM HAD 45-50 DBZ AROUND 30K FT AND A VIL OF 42 FROM KGSP. STEADY EAST FLOW CIRCULATING FROM SRN GA LOW WILL BUILD MOISTURE OVER THE CWA TONIGHT. EXPECTING MOSTLY CLOUDY SKY BY LATE TONIGHT IN THE FORM OF MID STRATUS. SH/TS SHOULD CONTINUE IN LESSER VALUES AS DECENT VORT MAX PASSES WITH SHARP TROUGH. WILL CONTINUE SCT SH/TS TONIGHT AND SUN. SIMILAR PATTERN FOR SUN WITH THE ADDITION OF A NOSING SFC HIGH FROM THE NE. WILL COOL TEMPS TO MET GUIDANCE AND ADVERTISE A LIGHT NE WIND. UPPER LEVEL LOW REMAINS OVER THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. DEEP MOISTURE...BUT LITTLE DEEP LIFT SEEN. THERE WILL BE SOME LIFT...SO WITH MOISTURE AND UPPER LOW HANGING AROUND WILL KEEP CHC POP. LOW FINALLY OPENS UP MONDAY NIGHT...THEN REMNANT TROF MAKES A SLOW ELY PROGRESS ON TUE. KEPT A LINGERING SLIGHT CHC POP MONDAY NITE...BUT HAVE A DRY FCST TUE AS WE WILL BE BETWEEN SYSTEMS. HIGHS REMAIN WELL BELOW NORMAL MONDAY WITH CLOUDS...NELY FLOW AND LOW THICKNESSES. HIGHS RISE TO NEAR OR A LITTLE ABOVE NORMAL TUE DUE TO SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THICKNESSES AS UPPER LOW MOVES OUT. SHOULD ALSO SEE SOME SUNSHINE. LOWS A LITTLE BELOW NORMAL SUNDAY AND MONDAY NIGHTS. && .LONG TERM (TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY)... PERIOD STARTS WITH UPPER LEVEL TROF OVER THE EAST COAST. A WEAK SHORT WAVE MOVES THRU THE TROF WED INTO OUR AREA PUSHING A BACKDOOR COLD FRONT THRU. BEST MOISTURE AND LIFT SPLIT AND PASS EAST AND WEST OF OUR AREA...SO HAVE A DRY FCST FOR NOW. AREA REMAINS IN NWLY FLOW UNTIL SAT WHEN RIDGING BEGINS TO MOVE IN. A COUPLE OF WEAK SHORT WAVES MOVE THRU THE NWLY FLOW FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. COOLER HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN ON THU THEN HOLDS ACROSS THE AREA THRU SATURDAY AND MODERATES. ENOUGH MOISTURE AND LIFT FOR SLIGHT CHC AFT/EVE POP FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS AHEAD OF THE FNT ON WED...THEN SEASONAL VALUES THU. BACK TO ABOVE NORMAL FRI AND SATURDAY. && .AVIATION... CONVECTION HAS INITIATED OVER THE MTNS AND IS MOVING ENE ATTM. SATELLITE SHOWS THAT CU HAS DEVELOPED ACROSS THE CWA...WITH TCU OVER THE UPPER SAVANNAH VALLEY ALONG WITH THE MTNS. WILL TEMPO IN PERIODS OF TS/SH FOR ALL TERMINALS MINUS KCLT. THE CONVECTIVE THREAT SHOULD CONTINUE UNTIL 6Z...ATMOS BECOMES MORE STABLE AFTER 6Z. NAM DEPICTS THAT THE SFC LOW WILL REMAIN OVER SRN GA TONIGHT...KEEPING THE FA UNDER DEEP EAST FLOW. UPSLOPE FLOW COMBINED WITH A PASSING VORT MAX SHOULD SUPPORT WIDESPREAD MID CLOUDS. ALSO...FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW AMPLE BL MOISTURE BUILDS BY SUNRISE...POSSIBLY LEADING TO MVFR FOG OVER AREAS THAT SEE RAIN TODAY AND TONIGHT. SUN...NE WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN SOMEWHAT BY MID MORNING. WILL CONTINUE VFR CEILING THROUGH 18Z WITH MENTION OF SH/TS. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...NED/RWH LONG TERM...RWH AVIATION...NED
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 18, 3:51 AM EDT, 14 hours 14 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
Local storm report, Jun 18, 3:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
350 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0329 PM HAIL 2 E WAYNESVILLE 35.48N 82.96W
06/18/2005 1.00 INCH HAYWOOD NC LAW ENFORCEMENT
QUARTER TO NICKEL HAIL REPORTED BY SHERRIF DEPUTY ON
WAYNESVILLE MTN. RECEIVED FROM COUNTY COMMS.
0332 PM HAIL WAYNESVILLE 35.48N 83.00W
06/18/2005 0.88 INCH HAYWOOD NC NEWSPAPER
NICKEL HAIL REPORTED BY WMXI RADIO. GROUND BECOMING
COVERED.
&&
RWHLocal storm report, Jun 18, 4:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
406 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0402 PM HAIL HIGHLANDS 35.05N 83.20W
06/18/2005 0.50 INCH MACON NC LAW ENFORCEMENT
MACON 911 RELAYED REPORT FROM HIGHLANDS PD THAT HAIL HAD
REACHED 1/2 INCH DIAMETER AND FALLING HEAVILY...COVERING
GROUND. THE PRECIP WAS ALMOST ALL HAIL...AND WAS RIPPING
LEAVES OFF OF THE TREES.
&&
JONESSpecial weather statement, Jun 18, 5:20 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 520 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 NCZ067-182230- RUTHERFORD- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...RUTHERFORDTON 520 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING IN RUTHERFORD COUNTY. THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE... PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED. 07
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:30 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 530 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 GAZ010-017-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-SCZ001>003-182330- AVERY-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-HABERSHAM-HAYWOOD- HENDERSON-MACON NC-MADISON NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-RABUN-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SWAIN- TRANSYLVANIA-YANCEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASHEVILLE...BREVARD...CHEROKEE... CLARKESVILLE...CLAYTON...FRANKLIN...HENDERSONVILLE...NEWLAND... SPRUCE PINE...SYLVA...WAYNESVILLE 530 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE IN MOUNTAINS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD HAIL AND UP TO SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR. FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. NCZ034-035-054>056-066-068>070-182330- ALEXANDER-BURKE NC-CALDWELL-CATAWBA-CLEVELAND-GASTON-LINCOLN NC- MCDOWELL-POLK NC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GASTONIA...HICKORY...LINCOLNTON...MARION... MORGANTON...SHELBY...TRYON 530 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...AND INTO THE WESTERN PIEDMONT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL. GAZ018-026-028-SCZ004>007-010-182330- ANDERSON-FRANKLIN GA-GREATER GREENVILLE-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-HART-SPARTANBURG-STEPHENS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ANDERSON...GREENVILLE...HARTWELL... SPARTANBURG...TOCCOA 530 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FOOTHILLS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD SOUTHEAST FROM THE MOUNTAINS INTO THE FOOTHILLS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL. 07
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:32 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 532 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 GAZ010-017-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-SCZ001>003-182330- AVERY-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-HABERSHAM-HAYWOOD- HENDERSON-MACON NC-MADISON NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-RABUN-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SWAIN- TRANSYLVANIA-YANCEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASHEVILLE...BREVARD...CHEROKEE... CLARKESVILLE...CLAYTON...FRANKLIN...HENDERSONVILLE...NEWLAND... SPRUCE PINE...SYLVA...WAYNESVILLE 532 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS TO CONTINUE IN MOUNTAINS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL AND UP TO SEVERAL INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR. FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. NCZ034-035-054>056-066-068>070-182330- ALEXANDER-BURKE NC-CALDWELL-CATAWBA-CLEVELAND-GASTON-LINCOLN NC- MCDOWELL-POLK NC- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GASTONIA...HICKORY...LINCOLNTON...MARION... MORGANTON...SHELBY...TRYON 532 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT... THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...AND INTO THE WESTERN PIEDMONT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL. GAZ018-026-028-SCZ004>007-010-182330- ANDERSON-FRANKLIN GA-GREATER GREENVILLE-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-HART-SPARTANBURG-STEPHENS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ANDERSON...GREENVILLE...HARTWELL... SPARTANBURG...TOCCOA 532 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FOOTHILLS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD SOUTHEAST FROM THE MOUNTAINS INTO THE FOOTHILLS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL. 07
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 605 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 SCZ008-182330- CHEROKEE SC- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...GAFFNEY 605 PM EDT SAT JUN 18 2005 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY EARLY THIS EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 23 min |
| 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, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 6:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rabun | 3 hr |
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.