Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2006, 6:07 AM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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, 2006, 6:07 AM EDT (10:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2006, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Union County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:09 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 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 348 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
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, 2:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 2:00 AM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 200 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 .SHORT TERM /TODAY THROUGH MONDAY/... UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO SPIN OVER GREAT LAKES WHILE SHORTWAVES TRANSLATE THROUGH UPPER TROUGH OVER THE SE STATES. AREA REMAINS UNDER GOOD UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE WITH LARGE SCALE LIFT AND DEEP MOISTURE. PERIODS OF STRONG CONVECTION WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH MUCH OF SAT SO WILL CONTINUE CATEGORICAL POPS OVER BULK OF CWA UNTIL MID DAY...THEN DECREASING POPS FROM THE W DURG THE LATE AFTN. EXPECT A BREAK SAT NIGHT BEFORE A SHORTWAVE...UPPER DIVERGENCE AND A SFC BOUNDARY PUSH S TOWARD MTNS SUN. HAVE ADDED SLIGHT CHANCE TSTMS... MAINLY OVER MTNS SUN. WINDS ALSO INCREASE FROM THE SW SUN AS SFC HIGH BUILDS ALONG GULF AND LOW PRESSURE DEEPENS NE OF AREA. SLIGHT CHANCE TSTMS OVER MTNS CONTINUES MON. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... A CHANCE OF SHOWERS/TSTMS CONTINUES TUE AND WED AS FRONT PUSHES FARTHER S INTO AREA. COOL HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE N FOR THU AND FRI. NO CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE EXTENDED FORECAST. && .AVIATION... VERY COMPLICATED 6Z TAF PACKAGE. MCS CURRENTLY WORKING ACROSS THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY WITH INDEPENDENT CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES NE ACROSS THE NC MTNS AND I-40 CORRIDOR. THE FIRST CHALLENGE WILL BE TIMING THE MCS ACROSS THE TERMINALS. TOWARD SUNRISE...THE MAJORITY OF THE MOS GUIDANCE INDICATES THAT AFTER 9Z MVFR TO IFR FOG AND STRATUS MAY DEVELOP. CURRENT TRENDS ACROSS THE REGION DOES NOT SUPPORT A RAPID DECREASE IN THE CEILING DUE TO THE CONVECTION. HOWEVER...BASED ON THE RECENT RAINFALL AND MORNING FOG I WILL INCLUDE A TEMPO BETWEEN 10-13Z. TROF AXIS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON...BRINGING ANOTHER ROUND OF SHRA AND TSRA. HOWEVER...REGIONAL RADAR COMPOSITE SHOWS SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS A FEW HOURS AHEAD OF THE MID LEVEL TROF. I WILL FAVOR TIMING A LITTLE EARLIER THAN THE NAM FOR AFTERNOON TSRA...I WILL HIGHLIGHT TSRA WITH A TEMPO BETWEEN 15-19Z. BY 0Z SUN...WINDS SHOULD VEER AND SKY WILL CLEAR...VFR FORECAST FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RB LONG TERM...RB AVIATION...NED
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 22, 3:25 AM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 325 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-230730- 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 NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER- GREENWOOD- 325 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE TO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MOUNTAINS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...SPREADING ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA FROM TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 4:08 AM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 408 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 NCZ034-035-055-056-068>070-220915- ALEXANDER-BURKE-CALDWELL-CATAWBA-CLEVELAND-GASTON-LINCOLN- 408 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING ALEXANDER... BURKE... CALDWELL... CATAWBA... CLEVELAND... GASTON AND LINCOLN COUNTIES... AT 404 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PATTERSON TO BOILING SPRINGS NC...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF LENOIR TO 8 MILES NORTH OF GAFFNEY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... CONNELLY SPRINGS BY 415 AM EDT. KINGS CREEK BY 420 AM EDT. VALE BY 425 AM EDT. KINGS MOUNTAIN BY 430 AM EDT. GASTONIA... LINCOLNTON AND TAYLORSVILLE 435 AM EDT. MOUNT HOLLY BY 445 AM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. MCAVOY
Special weather statement, Apr 22, 4:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 435 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 SCZ009-014-220930- CHESTER-YORK- 435 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE AFFECTING CHESTER AND YORK COUNTIES... AT 433 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST OF CLOVER TO WHITMIRE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF YORK TO 15 MILES NORTH OF NEWBERRY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... YORK BY 445 AM EDT. MCCONNELLS BY 455 AM EDT. LAKE WYLIE BY 500 AM EDT. TEGA CAY BY 510 AM EDT. RICHBURG BY 520 AM EDT. CATAWBA BY 525 AM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. MCAVOY
Local storm report, Apr 22, 5:22 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
522 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0438 AM TSTM WND DMG LINCOLNTON 35.48N 81.25W
04/22/2006 LINCOLN NC LAW ENFORCEMENT
LARGE OAK TREE DOWN ON A HOUSE IN LINCOLNTON.
&&
MCAVOYLocal storm report, Apr 22, 5:48 AM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
548 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0515 AM HAIL 7 E STATESVILLE 35.79N 80.76W
04/22/2006 E0.75 INCH IREDELL NC TRAINED SPOTTER
A TRAINED SPOTTER NEAR ELMWOOD ENCOUNTERED VERY STRONG
WIND AND PENNY SIZE HAIL ON HIGHWAY 70. THE WIND WAS
STRONG ENOUGH TO IMPEDE TRAVEL AND LITTERED THE ROAD WITH
SMALL TREE DEBRIS.
&&
NEDSpecial weather statement, Apr 22, 5:49 AM EDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 549 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-222000- ABBEVILLE-ALEXANDER-ANDERSON-AVERY-BUNCOMBE-BURKE NC-CABARRUS- CALDWELL-CATAWBA-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER-CLEVELAND-DAVIE-ELBERT- FRANKLIN GA-GASTON-GRAHAM-GREATER GREENVILLE-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREENWOOD-HABERSHAM-HART- HAYWOOD-HENDERSON-IREDELL-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL-MECKLENBURG-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-POLK NC-RABUN-ROWAN-RUTHERFORD- SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG-STEPHENS-SWAIN-TRANSYLVANIA-UNION NC- UNION SC-YANCEY-YORK- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ABBEVILLE...ANDERSON...ASHEVILLE... BREVARD...CHARLOTTE...CHEROKEE...CHESTER...CLARKESVILLE...CLAYTON... CONCORD...ELBERTON...FRANKLIN...GAFFNEY...GASTONIA...GREENVILLE... GREENWOOD...HARTWELL...HENDERSONVILLE...HICKORY...LAURENS... LINCOLNTON...MARION...MOCKSVILLE...MONROE...MORGANTON...NEWLAND... ROCK HILL...RUTHERFORDTON...SALISBURY...SHELBY...SPARTANBURG... SPRUCE PINE...STATESVILLE...SYLVA...TOCCOA...TRYON...UNION... WAYNESVILLE 549 AM EDT SAT APR 22 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY.... GULF MOISTURE REMAINS OVER THE REGION WHILE A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE OVER THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS THIS AFTERNOON...BRINGING ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND RAIN SHOWERS TO THE AREA. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND MOST LIKELY. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE ALSO EXPECTED AND WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SOAKED BY RAIN OVERNIGHT...FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY WHERE HEAVY RAIN REDEVELOPS OVER THE SAME AREAS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST UPDATED INFORMATION.
Local storm report, Apr 22, 6:00 AM EDT, 7 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 1:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 51 min |
| Apr 22, 2:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 4:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 53 min |
| Apr 22, 5:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 55 min |
| Apr 22, 5:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 63 min |
| Apr 22, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 52 min |
| Apr 22, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 24 min |
| Apr 22, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 45 min |
| Apr 22, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 31 min |
| Apr 22, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 56 min |
| Apr 21, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 40 min |
| Apr 21, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 55 min |
| Apr 21, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 56 min |
| Apr 21, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 38 min |
| Apr 21, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 14 min |
| Apr 21, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 44 min |
| Apr 21, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 64 min |
| Apr 22, 1:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 57 min |
| Apr 22, 2:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 67 min |
| Apr 22, 3:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 29 min |
| Apr 22, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.