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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 437, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2006, 2:19 PM EDT for Buncombe County, McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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 20, 2006, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2006, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Buncombe County, NC, McDowell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 Jul 20, 10:07 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 10:07 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 539 AM EDT THU JUL 20 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-210945- 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- 539 AM EDT THU JUL 20 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 IN THE FORECAST...MAINLY IN THE MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST IN FROM FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...AND AGAIN ON TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 1:38 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 56 min |
| Jul 20, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 75 min |
| Jul 20, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 69 min |
| Jul 20, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 53 min |
| Jul 20, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 79 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.