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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 430, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 15, 2006Catawba County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2006, 6:05 PM EDT for Catawba County, North Carolina. It was in force for 85 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
Jul 15, 2006, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 2006, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
85 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Catawba County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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 2006-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 424 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 2006-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
424 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1200 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson90 min
Jul 15, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe26 min
Jul 15, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk71 min
Jul 15, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland71 min
Jul 15, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford53 min
Jul 15, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston96 min
Jul 15, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander75 min
Jul 15, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPIredell93 min
Jul 15, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion92 min
Jul 15, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, Caldwell28 min
Jul 15, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus74 min
Jul 14, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPYork36 min
Jul 15, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Spartanburg77 min
Jul 15, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee89 min
Jul 15, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg64 min
Jul 15, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion68 min
Jul 15, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester76 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.