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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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.
- 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
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 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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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Davie, Iredell | 54 min |
| Jun 3, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 65 min |
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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.