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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2007, 8:56 PM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 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 30, 2007, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2007, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Union County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 30, 7:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 7:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 449 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 GAZ018-026-028-029-SCZ001>014-019-012100- STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS- GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE- LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 449 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 466 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A STALLED SURFACE FRONT WILL MEANDER ACROSS THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA SUNDAY MORNING AND HELP KEEP AREAS SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 85 CORRIDOR UNSTABLE AND MOIST THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD EASILY DEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON AS ANY BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS WILL ALLOW HEATING TO ENHANCE INSTABILITY. THESE STORMS WILL MAINLY BE DRIVEN BY THE AMOUNT OF HEATING AVAILABLE...SO A FAIRLY QUICK DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY CAN BE EXPECTED AROUND SUNSET. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. GAZ010-017-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-068>072-082- 501>510-012100- RABUN-HABERSHAM-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- 449 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT MAY SEE STRONG STORMS DEVELOP BY LATE THIS EVENING. THE SEVERE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO TOPPLE TREES AND POWER LINES...AND ISOLATED HEAVY DOWNPOURS PRODUCING RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A STALLED SURFACE FRONT WILL MEANDER ACROSS THE MIDLANDS OF SOUTH CAROLINA SUNDAY MORNING AND HELP KEEP AREAS SOUTH OF THE INTERSTATE 85 CORRIDOR UNSTABLE AND MOIST THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD EASILY DEVELOP IN THE AFTERNOON AS ANY BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS WILL ALLOW HEATING TO ENHANCE INSTABILITY. THESE STORMS WILL MAINLY BE DRIVEN BY THE AMOUNT OF HEATING AVAILABLE...SO A FAIRLY QUICK DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY CAN BE EXPECTED AROUND SUNSET. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED. NED
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 5:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 704 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 NCZ036-056-069-071-010000- CATAWBA-IREDELL-LINCOLN-MECKLENBURG- 704 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN...NORTHERN MECKLENBURG...SOUTHEASTERN CATAWBA AND SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES THROUGH 800 PM EDT... AT 703 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR TERRELL...OR 13 MILES EAST OF NEWTON... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN...NORTHERN MECKLENBURG...SOUTHEASTERN CATAWBA AND SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... TERRELL...LAKE NORMAN...CORNELIUS AND DAVIDSON... SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. BOATERS ON LAKE NORMAN SHOULD HEAD TO SHORE. DO NOT GET CAUGHT OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAKE WHEN THE THUNDERSTORM ARRIVES. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 7:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 726 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 NCZ072-010015- CABARRUS- 726 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CABARRUS COUNTY THROUGH 815 PM EDT... AT 722 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ROCKWELL TO 3 MILES SOUTH OF KANNAPOLIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN CABARRUS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... KANNAPOLIS...LOWES MOTOR SPEEDWAY...CONCORD...HARRISBURG...MOUNT PLEASANT AND MIDLAND... SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. MOORE
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 8:00 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 800 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 NCZ082-010100- UNION- 800 PM EDT SAT JUN 30 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN UNION COUNTY THROUGH 900 PM EDT... AT 756 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF MIDLAND...OR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBEMARLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN EASTERN UNION COUNTY... SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 51 min |
| Jul 1, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 69 min |
| Jul 1, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 61 min |
| Jul 1, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham | 55 min |
| Jul 1, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stephens | 61 min |
| Jul 1, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 31 min |
| Jul 1, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin | 66 min |
| Jul 1, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stephens | 30 min |
| Jul 1, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2007Every 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.