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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 10, 2008Madison County, Yancey County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2008, 2:19 PM EDT for Madison County, Yancey County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 10, 2008, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2008, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Madison County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 556 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 10, 1:30 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 1:30 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 4:58 AM EDT, 9 hours 21 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
458 AM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-110900-
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-
458 AM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON.
THE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE REGION WILL BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE THIS
AFTERNOON...AND THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT SOME OF THE STORMS
WHICH DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT WILL BECOME SEVERE.
HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING MICROBURSTS ARE THE
MAIN THREAT FROM SEVERE STORMS TODAY. THERE WILL NOT BE MUCH WIND
SHEAR IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON...AND SOME ISOLATED FLASH
FLOODING IS POSSIBLE WHERE STORMS BECOME STATIONARY.

THE GREATEST CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE OVER THE NORTH
CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT FROM MID AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY
EVENING HOURS. HOWEVER...THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS TO
AFFECT JUST ABOUT ANY PART OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST
GEORGIA LATER TODAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF NORTHEAST
GEORGIA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

MCAVOY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1111 AM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0535 PM     HAIL             CHESTER                 34.71N 81.21W
06/09/2008  E0.75 INCH       CHESTER            SC   COUNTY OFFICIAL

&&

JMS

Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:30 AM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1130 AM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 PM     HAIL             11 W CHESTER            34.71N 81.41W
06/09/2008  E0.75 INCH       CHESTER            SC   PUBLIC

            HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES FELL FROM THE WEST SIDE OF
            CHESTER TO 11 MILES WEST OF CHESTER AROUND 6 PM AND
            LASTED FOR 30 MINUTES.

&&

MOORE

Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:52 AM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1152 AM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0700 PM     HAIL             PACOLET                 34.90N 81.77W
06/09/2008  E1.00 INCH       SPARTANBURG        SC   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            HAIL SIZE VARIED BETWEEN NICKEL AND QUARTER

&&

JMS

Local storm report, Jun 10, 12:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1215 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0735 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 NW GREER              34.96N 82.26W
06/09/2008                   GREENVILLE         SC   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            MULTIPLE TREES HIT POWERLINES IN LAKE CUNNINGHAM FIRE
            DISTRICT

&&

JMS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	65 min
Jun 10, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell	38 min
Jun 10, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Transylvania, Yancey	54 min
Jun 10, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Caldwell, Mitchell	65 min
Jun 10, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, McDowell, Madison, Mitchell and 1 more	64 min
Jun 10, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Burke, Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford	63 min
Jun 10, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	25 min
Jun 10, 4:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mitchell, Yancey	2 hr
Jun 10, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens	44 min
Jun 10, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2008 Every 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.