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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 3, 2008Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2008, 4:11 PM EDT for Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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
Jun 3, 2008, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2008, 4:44 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Rowan County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 196 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2008-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 29 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2008-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
996 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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 Jun 3, 2:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 6:15 AM EDT, 9 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
615 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008

GAZ010-017-018-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-068>072-
501>510-SCZ001>008-041015-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-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-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-
615 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA
THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE
MOUNTAINS BY EARLY AFTERNOON...THEN SPREAD EAST INTO THE FOOTHILLS
AND PIEDMONT DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. INSTABILITY AND WIND
FIELDS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE
HIGHEST COVERAGE OF STORMS...AND THEREFORE THE BEST CHANCE FOR
SEVERE WEATHER...IS EXPECTED TO BE NORTH OF I-85...ESPECIALLY OVER
THE MOUNTAINS. THE MAIN THREATS WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE
FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO
CANNOT BE RULED OUT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE PIEDMONT DURING THE
LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

GAZ026-028-029-NCZ082-SCZ009>014-019-041015-
FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-UNION NC-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-
UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
615 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE PIEDMONT OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND
NORTHEAST GEORGIA. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREATS. HOWEVER...
THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER TODAY WILL EXIST NORTH OF I-85.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED.

LANE

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 2:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
230 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008

NCZ035>037-031900-
ALEXANDER-DAVIE-IREDELL-
230 PM EDT TUE JUN 3 2008

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN ALEXANDER...
NORTHERN IREDELL AND NORTHWESTERN DAVIE COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM
EDT...

AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINDY GAP...OR 9 MILES
NORTHEAST OF TAYLORSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 23 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  5 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARMONY BY 300 PM EDT.

SMALL 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.

ARK
Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:22 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 3, 3:24 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:00 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander, Davie, Iredell54 min
Jun 3, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPDavie, Iredell, Rowan65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.