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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 5, 2007, 5:37 PM EST for Cabarrus 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, 5:37 PM EST (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2007, 5:56 PM EST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cabarrus County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 052237 TORGSP NCC025-052315- /O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0006.070105T2237Z-070105T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 537 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CABARRUS COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EST * AT 535 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CONCORD... OR ABOUT OVER CONCORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CONCORD THROUGH 545 PM EST RIMER AT 555 PM EST KANNAPOLIS AT 550 PM EST THIS TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED BECAUSE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THERE IS HIGH POTENTIAL FOR THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF A BRIEF... ISOLATED TORNADO WITHIN THE WARNED AREA. 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. LAT...LON 3542 8064 3538 8060 3550 8038 3550 8056 $$ LANE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS52 KGSP 052256 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 553 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 NCC025-052303- /O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070105T2315Z/ CABARRUS NC- 553 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN CABARRUS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER IS A THREAT TO PRODUCE A TORNADO. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHEAST CABARRUS COUNTY THROUGH 615 PM EST. LAT...LON 3542 8064 3538 8060 3550 8038 3550 8056 $$ LANE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Jan 5, 2:57 PM EST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 2:57 PM EST, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 257 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... STRONG UPPER SHORT WAVE AND SURFACE TROUGH WILL CROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. LOOKS LIKE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL MOST LIKELY END WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE INITIAL SQUALL LINE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...THERE MAY BE A SECOND BAND OF CONVECTION ACCOMPANYING THE UPPER COLD POOL...SO WILL MAINTAIN A MENTION OF THUNDER IN GRIDS AFTER 00Z. BOTH GFS AND NAM INDICATE THAT PRECIPITATION SHOULD END WEST TO EAST THIS EVENING WITH PASSAGE OF UPPER SHORT WAVE. WILL END PRECIPITATION IN GRIDS BY 03Z OVER WESTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA AND OVER THE EASTERN PORTION BY 06Z. MODELS INDICATE DEEP LAYER DRYING BY 12Z WHICH MOS SUPPORTS BY SCATTERING CLOUDS/CLEARING. SO WILL INDICATE THAT TREND LATE TONIGHT. MINIMUM TEMPS A BLEND OF MAV/MET BUT TWEAKED UPWARD ESPECIALLY EASTERN PORTION WHERE CLOUDS WILL HANG IN MOST OF THE NIGHT. SENSIBLE WEATHER FCST FOR SATURDAY CONTINUES TO LOOK MILD AND DRY WITHIN THE BROAD SOUTHWEST FLOW ALONG THE FRONT SIDE OF APPROACHING L/WV. THE ONSET OF MOISTENING WAA FLOW NORTHEAST OF DEVELOPING GULF COAST LOW PRESSURE IS STILL ON TRACK FOR SATURDAY NIGHT. 05/12 UTC MODELS PROGGING THE ATMOSPHERE TO STILL BE PRETTY WEAKLY FORCED AT THIS JUNCTURE AND EVEN THE NEW OP GFS IS TRENDING SLOWER WITH THE NORTHWARD PROGRESS OF DEEPER MOISTURE AND PCPN BY 12 UTC SUNDAY. SO...SENSIBLE WX FOR SATURDAY NIGHT WILL BE THICKENING CLOUDS WITH JUST A FEW SHOWERS. SFC LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK NORTHEAST ALONG BAROCLINIC ZONE THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING WITH THE RESULTANT CATEGORICAL RAINFALL CVRG. LATEST SHORT RANGE MODELS GIVING MIXED SIGNALS WITH RESPECT TO PLACEMENT OF THE AXIS OF HEAVIEST RAIN AND DEGREE OF DESTABILIZATION. A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE ACRS THE CWFA...ESPECIALLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BUT IS INCONCLUSIVE IF AND WHERE ANY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THREAT LIES. WILL GO AHEAD AND RAISE POP TO CATEGORICAL FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING AND ADD HEAVY RAIN MENTION AS 05/09 UTC SREF INDICATES GREATER THE 90 PERCENT PROBABILITY FOR MEASURABLE PCPN PRETTY MUCH CWFA WIDE. DESPITE THE UNCERTAINTY AS FAR AS PLACEMENT OF HEAVIEST RAIN...ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS CERTAINLY CAUSING THE CHANCES FOR EXCESSIVE RAIN TO INCREASE...AND PLAN ON ISSUING FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK. SHEAR PROFILES EXPECTEDLY STOUT SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND DEPENDING ON DEGREE OF DESTABILIZATION...LOCAL DAMAGING WIND THREAT COULD ARISE. && .LONG TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... COOLING IN THE WAKE OF DEPARTING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE COULD RESULT IN SOME NC MTN HIGHER ELEVATION SNOWS FROM 06-12 UTC MONDAY...OTHERWISE MODELS ARE TRENDING QUICKER WITH DEEP DRYING MONDAY MORNING WITH LLVL RIDGING TRANSLATING ACRS THE CWFA THROUGH THE DAY. PROGRESSIVE L/WV TROUGH WILL BE FEATURED ACRS THE EASTERN U.S. TUESDAY WITH EMBEDDED FRONTAL SYSTEM SUPPORTED BY MOSTLY CHANNELLED VORT ENERGY SWINGING THROUGH MAINLY OFF TO OUR NORTH. BOTH THE 05/06 UTC AND 05/12 UTC OP GFS RUNS WOULD SUPPORT NORTHERN NC MTN SNOW SHOWER CHANCES THIS PERIOD. UPPER FLOW QUICKLY FLATTENS WEDNESDAY AS SFC RIDGING BUILDS INTO THE APPALACHIANS FOLLOWED BY DEVELOPING UPPER LEVEL RIDGING OVER THE SOUTHEAST U.S. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. IT IS DEBATABLE ON HOW MUCH ATLANTIC MOISTURE ADVECTS INTO THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THROUGH THE END OF THE WORKWEEK...BUT LARGE SCALE PATTERN WOULD SUPPORT THE PCPN-FREE PERIOD CONTINUING. && .AVIATION... IFR CEILINGS WILL REMAIN ACROSS ALL TAF SITES OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAINS FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING OUT AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT. KGSP RADAR SHOWS A LINEAR CONVECTIVE SYSTEM MOVING ACRS WRN SC. TAFS WILL BE AMENDED TO INCLUDE THUNDER AS THE LINE APPROACHES. VIS SHOULD BRIEFLY LOWER TO IFR WITH THE LINE/S PASSAGE. OTHERWISE...IN THE WAKE OF THE CONVECTIVE LINE...CEILINGS AND VIS SHOULD IMPROVE FOR A WHILE IN THE EVENING TO VFR. EVENTUALLY VIS IS EXPECTED TO DROP BACK TO MVFR AS FOG DEVELOPS LATE THIS EVENING. THE FOG SHOULD LIFT AROUND DAYBREAK AS DRIER AIR MOVES IN BRIEFLY. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...LG/CSH LONG TERM...CSH AVIATION...PM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 5, 5:35 AM EST, 12 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 535 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-061100- 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- 535 AM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WIND THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA...UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND THE CHARLOTTE METROPOLITAN AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY FROM ONE TO ONE AND ONE HALF INCHES OF RAINFALL IS EXPECTED ON SUNDAY...WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IN THE MOUNTAINS. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS ARE EXPECTED AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS LATE SUNDAY NIGHT...BUT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE LIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 07
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 5, 4:05 PM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
405 PM EST FRI JAN 05 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0315 PM TSTM WND DMG ROEBUCK 34.88N 81.96W
01/05/2007 SPARTANBURG SC LAW ENFORCEMENT
NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AT WOODRUFF LANE AND OLD GEORGIA ROAD
IN ROEBUCK. SOME DOWN ACROSS ROADS...2 DOWN ON A HOUSE.
&&
BSHSpecial weather statement, Jan 5, 4:34 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 434 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 NCZ070-071-052230- GASTON-MECKLENBURG- 434 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT GASTON AND MECKLENBURG COUNTIES THROUGH 530 PM EST... AT 429 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM DALLAS TO 6 MILES SOUTH OF ROCK HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... STANLEY BY 440 PM EST. PINEVILLE BY 445 PM EST. MOUNTAIN ISLAND LAKE BY 450 PM EST. CENTER CITY CHARLOTTE BY 455 PM EST. EASTLAND MALL BY 500 PM EST. UNC CHARLOTTE BY 505 PM EST. WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING ISOLATED...BRIEF...WEAK TORNADOES. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 9 PM EST. PEOPLE IN EASTERN GASTON AND MECKLENBURG COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF DALLAS...GASTONIA...LOWELL...LAKE WYLIE...CRAMERTON... STANLEY...BELMONT...MOUNT HOLLY...PINEVILLE AND PAW CREEK...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. LANE
Special weather statement, Jan 5, 4:55 PM EST, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 455 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 NCZ082-052300- UNION- 455 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT UNION COUNTY THROUGH 600 PM EST... AT 450 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CHARLOTTE TO 5 MILES WEST OF WAXHAW TO FISHING CREEK RESERVOIR...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... WAXHAW BY 500 PM EST. STALLINGS BY 510 PM EST. MONROE BY 520 PM EST. FAIRVIEW BY 525 PM EST. WINGATE BY 535 PM EST. MARSHVILLE BY 540 PM EST. WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING ISOLATED...BRIEF...WEAK TORNADOES ACROSS NORTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST. PEOPLE IN UNION COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF WAXHAW... STALLINGS...MONROE...FAIRVIEW...WINGATE...MARSHVILLE AND STURDIVANTS...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. LANE
Special weather statement, Jan 5, 5:14 PM EST, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 514 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 NCZ072-052315- CABARRUS- 514 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CABARRUS COUNTY THROUGH 615 PM EST... AT 512 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MOORESVILLE TO UNC CHARLOTTE TO MATTHEWS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... HARRISBURG BY 525 PM EST. KANNAPOLIS BY 535 PM EST. MIDLAND BY 540 PM EST. MOUNT PLEASANT BY 555 PM EST. WINDS GUSTS OF UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING ISOLATED...BRIEF...WEAK TORNADOES ACROSS NORTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST. PEOPLE IN CABARRUS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HARRISBURG... KANNAPOLIS...CONCORD...MIDLAND AND MOUNT PLEASANT...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. LANE
Local storm report, Jan 5, 5:27 PM EST, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
527 PM EST FRI JAN 05 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0131 PM TSTM WND DMG TOCCOA 34.58N 83.32W
01/05/2007 STEPHENS GA COUNTY OFFICIAL
TWO TREES DOWN...ONE ON BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE AND ONE ON
PRATHER BRIDGE ROAD.
&&
MOORELocal storm report, Jan 5, 5:35 PM EST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
535 PM EST FRI JAN 05 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0443 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 ESE GASTONIA 35.22N 81.09W
01/05/2007 GASTON NC COUNTY OFFICIAL
DAMAGE TO ROOF AND HEAVY DAMAGE TO THE FRONT OF A HOUSE
AT 3318 AUTUMN DR. POSSIBLE TORNADO.
&&
BSHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 4:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Gaston | 19 min |
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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.