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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 508, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 7, 2006Cabarrus County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2006, 3:03 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 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 7, 2006, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cabarrus County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 7, 2:50 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:50 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 3:12 AM EDT, 11 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
312 AM EDT MON AUG 7 2006

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-080715-
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-
312 AM EDT MON AUG 7 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...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED EACH DAY...MAINLY DURING THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 7, 10:43 AM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:14 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 2:29 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
229 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2006

NCZ082-071930-
UNION-
229 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2006

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING UNION COUNTY...

AT 229 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF MONROE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
SLOWLY SOUTHWARD.

THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHWARD AND WILL SLIDE JUST WEST
OF TRINITY BY 245 PM BEFORE EXITING THE COUNTY. HEAVY
DOWNPOURS...WITH HOURLY RAINFALL RATES BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES
WILL BE POSSIBLE.

PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS AROUND 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

BSH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRowan55 min
Aug 7, 3:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPIredell78 min
Aug 7, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander, Caldwell82 min
Aug 7, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln54 min
Aug 7, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston65 min
Aug 7, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell70 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.