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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2006, 3:13 PM EDT for York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 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
- Apr 17, 2006, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 17, 2006, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 Apr 17, 3:05 PM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 17, 3:05 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 529 AM EDT MON APR 17 2006 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-181000- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER- GREENWOOD- 529 AM EDT MON APR 17 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 WILL CROSS THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THEN CROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF THE CAROLINAS TODAY. A FEW OF THE STORMS OVER THE PIEDMONT IN THE MID DAY AND EARLY AFTERNOON MAY BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY MORE THUNDERSTORMS COULD AFFECT THE AREA IN THE MID TO LATE WEEK. AT THE CURRENT TIME...THE BEST CHANCE OF ANY SEVERE WOULD BE OVER THE FAR WESTERN AREAS OF THE FORECAST AREA...THE WESTERN TIP OF NORTH CAROLINA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY IN THE CAROLINA PIEDMONT...GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 77. OUTLAW
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 17, 2:54 PM EDT, 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 11:08 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland and 17 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 63 min |
| Apr 17, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 51 min |
| Apr 17, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 64 min |
| Apr 17, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 56 min |
| Apr 17, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 28 min |
| Apr 17, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 44 min |
| Apr 17, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 33 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.