Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 520, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2006, 2:33 PM EDT for Union County, South 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 10, 2006, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2006, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Union County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 303 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
- 155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1270 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 10, 10:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 10:45 AM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 4:03 AM EDT, 10 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 403 AM EDT THU AUG 10 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-110815- 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- 403 AM EDT THU AUG 10 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 THERE IS A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. TORRENTIAL RAIN IS POSSIBLE IN STRONGER STORMS. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL MOST LIKELY NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 10, 12:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1229 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0229 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 NE MONROE 35.02N 80.50W
08/09/2006 UNION NC COUNTY OFFICIAL
SMALL BUSINESS OWNER AND COUNTY OFFICALS REPORT MULTIPLE
TREES DOWN BETWEEN HWY 601 AND MORGAN MILL ROAD.
&&
SKRENTZSpecial weather statement, Aug 10, 2:03 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 203 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006 SCZ011-101900- ABBEVILLE- 203 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING ABBEVILLE COUNTY... AT 154 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES EAST OF LOWNDESVILLE...OR 9 MILES WEST OF ABBEVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND RAINFALL RATES NEAR ONE INCH PER HOUR. KRENTZ
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:27 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 227 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006 SCZ013-101930- UNION- 227 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS AFFECTING UNION COUNTY... AT 224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITMIRE...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF UNION...REMAINING FAIRLY STATIONARY. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 AND HIGH RAINFALL RATES UP TO ONE INCH PER HOUR. KRENTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 67 min |
| Aug 10, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe 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.