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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 24, 2007Mitchell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2007, 4:19 PM EDT for Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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: Jun 24, 2007, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2007, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mitchell County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 283 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 991 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 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 Jun 24, 3:36 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:36 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 1:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
123 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2007

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-251730-
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-
123 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2007

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE
MOUNTAINS AND WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT. SOME
OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WIND.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

07

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 2:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 2:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:19 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:51 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	57 min
Jun 24, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	74 min
Jun 24, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	53 min
Jun 24, 3:32 PM EDT	Air Stagnation Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Davie and 6 more	29 hr
Jun 24, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rutherford	53 min
Jun 24, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	70 min
Jun 24, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	66 min
Jun 24, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	75 min
Jun 24, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	60 min
Jun 24, 6:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba	57 min
Jun 24, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	65 min
Jun 24, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	65 min
Jun 24, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	89 min
Jun 24, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2007 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.