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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 503, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2006, 7:45 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 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
- Aug 5, 2006, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2006, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 1320 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 Aug 5, 7:02 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 7:02 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 702 PM EDT SAT AUG 5 2006 .SHORT TERM /REST OF TONIGHT/... WILL PUSH POPS UP ALONG AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 85 CORRIDOR THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS AS THE CONVECTIVE CLUSTERS HAVE WORKED NW ON THE OUTFLOWS. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 151 PM EDT SAT AUG 5 2006/ SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... WEAK HIGH PRESSURE OVER MID ATLANTIC STATES AREA PRODUCING NORTHEAST WINDS THROUGHOUT THE AREA. INCREASE IN MOISTURE AND SOME ADDITIONAL LIFT ALONG THE MOUNTAINS WILL INCREASE THE AMOUNTS OF CLOUDINESS THROUGH SUNDAY. THIS WILL COOL TEMPERATURES INTO THE 80S/90S FOR THE REST OF THE WEEKEND. CONVECTION SEEMS TO FOCUS ALONG A WEAK BOUNDARY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA WITH JUST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT CWA. A FLAT UPPER RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEAST RETROGRADES INTO THE SOUTHERN PLAINS LATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY AS AN UPPER TROUGH AMPLIFIES ALONG THE EAST COAST. MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE REMNANTS OF THE STATIONARY FRONT REMAINS BANKED UP AGAINST THE MOUNTAINS MONDAY...WHILE ANOTHER COLD FRONT CROSSES THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY. CAPE OF GREATER THAN 2000 J/KG IS SHOWS BY THE GFS ALONG THIS BOUNDARY IN THE CHARLOTTE AREA SUNDAY EVENING...SUPPORTING EVENING CONVECTION. A LEE TROUGH SHOULD SERVE AS THE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION MONDAY...THOUGH THE GFS SHOWS THE BEST INSTABILITY WELL TO THE EAST OF INTERSTATE 77. THE COLD FRONT REACHES THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE AREA LATE MONDAY NIGHT...AND CROSSES THE AREA FROM NORTH TO SOUTH ON TUESDAY. CAPE ACCOMPANYING THE BOUNDARY WILL APPROACH 2000 J/KG AGAIN TUESDAY AFTERNOON...WITH EVEN GREATER VALUES TO THE EAST. MAXIMUMS TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE SLIGHTLY BOTH MON MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS WEAK WARM ADVECTION SETS UP IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT...WHILE MINIMUM TEMPERATURES REMAIN NEAR NORMAL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF SUMMERTIME MOISTURE. LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... EAST COAST UPPER LEVEL TROUGHING WILL PERSIST FROM DAYS 4 THROUGH 7...WHILE COLD FRONTS MOVE SOUTH INTO OUR AREA LATE TUESDAY AND AGAIN ON SATURDAY. CHANCE POPS WILL BE MAINTAINED AROUND THE CLOCK WHEN FRONTS ARE IN THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY...WITH A MORE DIURNAL CYCLE FOLLOWED ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL AVERAGE NEAR NORMAL UNDER BELOW NORMAL HEIGHTS. AVIATION... WEAK BOUNDARY JUST SOUTH OF AREA WILL INCREASE CONVECTION THROUGH THE PIEDMONT OF SOUTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING. SUMMER CONVECTION OVER THE REST OF THE AREA ENDING AFTER SUNSET WITH REDIDUAL CLOUDINESS THROUGH THE REST OF TONIGHT. BY MORNING SOME EARLY MORNING STRATUS BREAKING AFTER SUNRISE AND DEVELOPING CONVECTIVE CHARACTERISTICS BY NOON. NORTHEAST WINDS THROUGHOUT PERIOD SHIFTING TO SOUTHEAST BY EARLY AFTERNOON ON SUNDAY. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 6:30 AM EDT, 13 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 630 AM EDT SAT AUG 5 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-061030- 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- 630 AM EDT SAT AUG 5 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 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS...ESPECIALLY ACROSS UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...NORTHEAST GEORGIA...AND THE SOUTHWEST MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. IN ADDITION...THERE WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING... ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SCATTERED...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY THROUGH THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY. LANE
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 648 PM EDT SAT AUG 5 2006 SCZ007-052345- SPARTANBURG- 648 PM EDT SAT AUG 5 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING SPARTANBURG COUNTY... AT 642 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ENOREE...OR 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAURENS... MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... WOODRUFF BY 720 PM EDT. 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROEBUCK BY 745 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rowan | 116 min |
| Aug 4, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 27 min |
| Aug 4, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 75 min |
| Aug 5, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 64 min |
| Aug 4, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stephens | 63 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.