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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 23, 2006Macon County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2006, 2:44 PM EDT for Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 76 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 23, 2006, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 76 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Macon County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 221 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 525 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 23, 10:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 10:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 6:15 AM EDT, 8 hours 29 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
615 AM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-241015-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-
IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-
CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-
TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-
CABARRUS-UNION NC-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-
BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-
RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-
EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-
GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-
LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
615 AM EDT FRI JUN 23 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

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN TODAY. SOME OF THESE
STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...SPSGSP...ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE.
OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP EACH DAY DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED
AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 23, 10:42 AM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 10:52 AM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 11:49 AM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 12:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 12:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1256 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0330 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 NE BREVARD            35.29N 82.67W
06/22/2006                   TRANSYLVANIA       NC   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            TREES DOWN NORTH OF PISGAH FOREST

&&

LG

Local storm report, Jun 23, 2:30 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
230 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0215 PM     HAIL             CHESNEE                 35.15N 81.86W
06/23/2006  E0.75 INCH       SPARTANBURG        SC   POST OFFICE

            DIME TO PENNY SIZED HAIL LASTED ABOUT 5 MINUTES.

&&

GMS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 6:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Yancey	39 min
Jun 23, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	54 min
Jun 23, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Transylvania	63 min
Jun 23, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson	78 min
Jun 23, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	78 min
Jun 23, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Transylvania	74 min
Jun 23, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	78 min
Jun 23, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	77 min
Jun 23, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	76 min
Jun 23, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk	70 min
Jun 23, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	75 min
Jun 23, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	55 min
Jun 23, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie	64 min
Jun 23, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	56 min
Jun 23, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	82 min
Jun 22, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	58 min
Jun 22, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	36 min
Jun 23, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	60 min
Jun 23, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	55 min
Jun 23, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	73 min
Jun 23, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	69 min
Jun 23, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	80 min
Jun 23, 4:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	4 hr
Jun 23, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	77 min
Jun 23, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	57 min
Jun 23, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	59 min
Jun 23, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	54 min
Jun 23, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	54 min
Jun 23, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	62 min
Jun 23, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	80 min
Jun 23, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	60 min
Jun 22, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Hart	61 min
Jun 23, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rabun	74 min
Jun 23, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Hart	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006 Every 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.