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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 373, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 27, 2006Cleveland County, North Carolina; Cherokee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2006, 7:21 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina; Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 39 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 27, 2006, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2006, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cleveland County, NC, Cherokee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 382 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2006-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 10:49 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAlexander3 hr
Jun 27, 11:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPDavie3 hr
Jun 27, 3:34 PM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryGSPAlexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Davie, Gaston, Iredell and 4 more14 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.