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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 379, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 23, 2007Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2007, 8:42 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 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
Aug 23, 2007, 8:42 PM EDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2007, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Caldwell County, NC

The radar

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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 Aug 23, 7:52 PM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 7:52 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 23, 3:54 PM EDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 23, 6:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 23, 6:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 23, 6:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
654 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2007

NCZ068-508-SCZ008-240000-
CHEROKEE-CLEVELAND-GREATER RUTHERFORD-
654 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2007

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN CHEROKEE...
SOUTHEASTERN RUTHERFORD AND SOUTHWESTERN CLEVELAND COUNTIES THROUGH
800 PM EDT...

AT 654 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLIFFSIDE...OR 11 MILES
NORTHWEST OF GAFFNEY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF
OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE
INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS
AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG
UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

HG
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 7:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
709 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2007

NCZ048-049-240000-
MADISON-YANCEY-
709 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT MADISON AND YANCEY COUNTIES
THROUGH 800 PM EDT...

AT 705 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTH OF
BANNER HILL TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOT SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 10 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  RAMSEYTOWN BY 735 PM EDT.
  BURNSVILLE BY 800 PM EDT.

PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

HG
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 7:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
733 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2007

NCZ502-504-240015-
GREATER BURKE-GREATER CALDWELL-
733 PM EDT THU AUG 23 2007

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN BURKE AND
SOUTHEASTERN CALDWELL COUNTIES THROUGH 815 PM EDT...

AT 730 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF HUDSON...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LENOIR...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAKE RHODHISS BY 755 PM EDT.
  CONNELLY SPRINGS BY 805 PM EDT.
  RUTHERFORD COLLEGE BY 810 PM EDT.
  VALDESE BY 815 PM EDT.

PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

HG
Special weather statement, Aug 23, 7:59 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 8:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke62 min
Aug 23, 9:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell67 min
Aug 23, 9:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford88 min
Aug 23, 9:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCaldwell42 min
Aug 23, 9:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk96 min
Aug 24, 9:55 AM EDTAir Stagnation AdvisoryGSPCabarrus, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and 2 more35 hr
Aug 24, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania29 min
Aug 24, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHaywood57 min
Aug 24, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery, Burke, McDowell67 min
Aug 24, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson34 min
Aug 24, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMitchell47 min
Aug 24, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMacon49 min
Aug 24, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson57 min
Aug 24, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford53 min
Aug 23, 8:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville37 min
Aug 23, 8:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPYork40 min
Aug 23, 11:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville31 min
Aug 24, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee39 min
Aug 24, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville65 min
Aug 24, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens28 min
Aug 24, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Spartanburg63 min
Aug 24, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson54 min
Aug 24, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville56 min
Aug 24, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRabun47 min
Aug 24, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHabersham, Rabun67 min
Aug 24, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPFranklin51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.