Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 5, 2007, 4:47 PM EST for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 19 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 2007, 4:47 PM EST (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2007, 5:06 PM EST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gaston County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KGSP 052147 TORGSP NCC071-052215- /O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0005.070105T2147Z-070105T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 447 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN GASTON COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 515 PM EST * AT 442 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF DALLAS...OR ABOUT OVER GASTONIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MOUNTAIN ISLAND LAKE AROUND 455 PM EST... THIS RAPIDLY MOVING TORNADO WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND VERY LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE THE TORNADO BEFORE SEEKING SHELTER. IT WILL LIKELY BE TOO LATE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER. OTHERWISE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR PLACE OF BUSINESS. TO REPORT TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR FLOODING... THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER... 1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. LAT...LON 3536 8124 3521 8112 3533 8095 3541 8096 $$ RWH/NED
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KGSP 052150 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 450 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 NCC071-052215- /O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070105T2215Z/ GASTON NC- 450 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM EST FOR EASTERN GASTON COUNTY... AT 446 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR STANLEY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF GASTONIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LUCIA AND MOUNTAIN ISLAND LAKE BY 455 PM EST... THIS RAPIDLY MOVING TORNADO WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND VERY LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE THE TORNADO BEFORE SEEKING SHELTER. IT WILL LIKELY BE TOO LATE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER. OTHERWISE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR PLACE OF BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3536 8124 3521 8112 3533 8095 3541 8096 $$ RWH/NED
000 WWUS52 KGSP 052206 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 505 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 NCC071-052214- /O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070105T2215Z/ GASTON NC- 505 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN GASTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST OF GASTON COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3536 8124 3521 8112 3533 8095 3541 8096 $$ NED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 5:37 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 19 min |
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.