Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2008, 4:28 PM EDT for Chester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 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 9, 2008, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2008, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Chester County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 9, 3:40 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:40 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 5:03 AM EDT, 11 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 503 AM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-100915- 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- 503 AM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL RISE INTO THE UPPER 90S...TO AROUND 100...OVER MUCH OF THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT THIS AFTERNOON. EVEN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAIN VALLEYS WILL WARM INTO THE LOWER 90S IN MANY INSTANCES. DEWPOINTS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY LOW...KEEPING THE HEAT INDEX UNDER THE 105 DEGREE ADVISORY CRITERIA. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND PENNY SIZED HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO BE A LITTLE BETTER THAN IN PREVIOUS DAYS...AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND AGAIN ON TUESDAY. MCAVOY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 309 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 NCZ051-092015- SWAIN- 309 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL SWAIN COUNTY THROUGH 415 PM EDT... AT 304 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALARKA...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRYSON CITY...MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WESSER... LUADA...BRYSON CITY...ALMOND AND ALARKA. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RB
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 311 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 NCZ052-053-092000- BUNCOMBE-HAYWOOD- 311 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN HAYWOOD AND SOUTHWESTERN BUNCOMBE COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT... AT 304 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRUSO...OR 8 MILES EAST OF WAYNESVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 9 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SUNBURST... LAKE JUNALUSKA...CRUSO...CLYDE...CANTON AND CANDLER. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RB
Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:37 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
337 PM EDT MON JUN 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0335 PM HAIL 3 SW BRYSON CITY 35.40N 83.49W
06/09/2008 E0.75 INCH SWAIN NC COUNTY OFFICIAL
PEA TO PENNY SIZED HAIL.
&&
RBSpecial weather statement, Jun 9, 4:18 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 418 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 NCZ050-092115- MITCHELL- 418 PM EDT MON JUN 9 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN MITCHELL COUNTY THROUGH 515 PM EDT... AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF BAKERSVILLE...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURNSVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 9 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO BULADEAN AND BAKERSVILLE. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. RB
Local storm report, Jun 9, 4:24 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
424 PM EDT MON JUN 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0335 PM HAIL 4 S CANTON 35.49N 82.84W
06/09/2008 E0.75 INCH HAYWOOD NC TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
RBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 58 min |
| Jun 9, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison | 55 min |
| Jun 9, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison, Yancey | 64 min |
| Jun 9, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery | 49 min |
| Jun 9, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell, Yancey | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, McDowell, Rutherford | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 58 min |
| Jun 9, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford | 65 min |
| Jun 9, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 40 min |
| Jun 9, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, Union, York | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 37 min |
| Jun 9, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.