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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 14, 2006Madison County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2006, 12:07 AM EST for Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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
Mar 14, 2006, 12:07 AM EST (05:07 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 2006, 1:00 AM EST
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Madison County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:09 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 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 254 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2006-03-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2006-03-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1703 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Mar 13, 10:23 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 10:23 PM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 13, 12:13 PM EST, 11 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1213 PM EST MON MAR 13 2006

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-
SCZ001>014-019-141115-
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-
1213 PM EST MON MAR 13 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT
A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS TENNESSEE
THIS AFTERNOON AND SHOULD REACH THE WESTERN TIP OF NORTH CAROLINA
THIS EVENING. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT SOME OF THE STORMS
COULD BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE STRONG OR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS
THIS EVENING AS THE LINE MOVES ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. THE AREA TO
THE NORTH AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 85 HAS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. FOR MORE INFORMATION...SEE THE SPECIAL
WEATHER STATEMENT ISSUED AT 1114 AM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY
DRIER AIR AND GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY
AFTERNOON. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT WIND GUSTS WILL REACH 30
MPH ON A FREQUENT BASIS AND THAT RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL DROP BELOW
25 PERCENT IN THE AFTERNOON. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED
FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND
FOOTHILLS AND MUCH OF THE WESTERN PIEDMONT. FOR MORE
INFORMATION...SEE THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH ISSUED AT 1200 PM.

OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS
THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS.

MOORE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 3:06 AM ESTLake Wind AdvisoryGSPBuncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon and 3 more15 hr
Mar 14, 3:06 AM ESTWind AdvisoryGSPAvery, Mitchell, Yancey15 hr

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.