Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 403
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2006, 3:53 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2006, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2006, 10:44 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 92 counties
Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 63 min |
| May 26, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 65 min |
| May 26, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 66 min |
| May 26, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania, City of Danville | 40 min |
| May 26, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 34 min |
| May 26, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 30 min |
| May 26, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 25 min |
| May 26, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 57 min |
| May 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 55 min |
| May 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 50 min |
| May 26, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Halifax | 62 min |
| May 26, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Franklin | 15 min |
| May 26, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Pittsylvania | 54 min |
| May 26, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 30 min |
| May 26, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 58 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell, Yancey | 66 min |
| May 26, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 31 min |
| May 26, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 59 min |
| May 26, 5:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Gaston | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 51 min |
| May 26, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 31 min |
| May 26, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 34 min |
| May 26, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 26 min |
| May 26, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 41 min |
| May 26, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Rockingham | 22 min |
| May 26, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Caswell | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 31 min |
| May 26, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Franklin, Granville | 29 min |
| May 26, 8:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 35 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 11 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 7:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 53 more | 84 min |
| May 26, 2:11 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Stokes, Surry | 94 min |
| May 26, 11:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell, Madison, Mitchell and 3 more | 2 hr |
| May 26, 1:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 62 more | 93 min |
| May 25, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington and 3 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.