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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2007, 2:29 PM EDT for Alexander County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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
- Jul 10, 2007, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2007, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Alexander County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 771 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 Jul 10, 11:51 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 11:51 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 6:08 AM EDT, 8 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 608 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-111015- 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- 608 AM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PERSIST OVER SOME LOCATIONS LONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE FLOODING. THE STORMS SHOULD WEAKEN BY LATE IN THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION LATE IN THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY AND COULD ENHANCE THE FORMATION OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. MOORE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 10, 9:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jul 10, 1:51 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
151 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0150 PM HAIL WEAVERVILLE 35.70N 82.56W
07/10/2007 E0.75 INCH BUNCOMBE NC EMERGENCY MNGR
PENNY SIZE HAIL REPORTED TO 911
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TBENTHALSpecial weather statement, Jul 10, 2:08 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 208 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007 NCZ504-506-101845- EASTERN MCDOWELL-GREATER BURKE- 208 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL BURKE AND SOUTHEASTERN MCDOWELL COUNTIES THROUGH 245 PM EDT... AT 208 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF DYSARTSVILLE...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARION...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MORGANTON...GLENWOOD...GLEN ALPINE...FERO AND DYSARTSVILLE. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. BSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 37 min |
| Jul 10, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 24 min |
| Jul 10, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 64 min |
| Jul 10, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 61 min |
| Jul 10, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 53 min |
| Jul 10, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 23 min |
| Jul 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 23 min |
| Jul 10, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 32 min |
| Jul 10, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 77 min |
| Jul 10, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 48 min |
| Jul 10, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 59 min |
| Jul 10, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 43 min |
| Jul 10, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 22 min |
| Jul 10, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 65 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.