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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 15, 2007Alexander County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 2007, 2:02 PM EDT for Alexander County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 15, 2007, 2:02 PM EDT (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2007, 2:31 PM EDT
In force: 29 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), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 15, 2:25 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Millersville, NC	SEVERAL LARGE OAK TREES DOWN AND POWERLINES DOWN AROUND MILLERSVILLE.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 15, 12:42 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 151802
TORGSP
NCC003-151845-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0008.070415T1802Z-070415T1845Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
202 PM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ALEXANDER COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 159 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 4
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF TAYLORSVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER TAYLORSVILLE...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TAYLORSVILLE AROUND 210 PM EDT...

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. MAKE SURE THERE ARE AS MANY WALLS AND FLOORS
BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

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 3591 8130 3580 8127 3579 8109 3597 8100
      3603 8103

$$

GMS

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS52 KGSP 151824
SVSGSP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
224 PM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

NCC003-151845-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070415T1845Z/
ALEXANDER NC-
224 PM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM EDT FOR ALEXANDER
COUNTY...

AT 220 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF
STONY POINT...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF STATESVILLE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LAT...LON 3591 8130 3580 8127 3579 8109 3597 8100
      3603 8103

$$

GMS

000 
WWUS52 KGSP 151831
SVSGSP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
230 PM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

NCC003-151840-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070415T1845Z/
ALEXANDER NC-
230 PM EDT SUN APR 15 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR ALEXANDER COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

ROTATION EARLIER INDICTATED BY DOPPLER RADAR HAS WEAKENED AND 
MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3591 8130 3580 8127 3579 8109 3597 8100
      3603 8103

$$

GMS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	36 min
Apr 15, 3:34 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more	56 hr
Apr 15, 3:34 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and 5 more	40 hr
Apr 15, 5:45 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 5 more	27 hr
Apr 15, 12:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	29 min
Apr 15, 12:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	66 min
Apr 15, 12:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	67 min
Apr 15, 2:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Iredell	41 min
Apr 15, 3:18 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	GSP	Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 4 more	12 hr
Apr 15, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	29 min
Apr 15, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	46 min
Apr 15, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.