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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2008, 3:00 PM EDT for Gaston County, Lincoln 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
- Jul 6, 2008, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2008, 3:33 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Gaston County, NC, Lincoln County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 Jul 6, 2:45 PM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:45 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 609 AM EDT SUN JUL 6 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-071015- 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- 609 AM EDT SUN JUL 6 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 THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA AGAIN TODAY. THE MAIN THREATS WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER...ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN ON MONDAY. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LANE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 1:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 132 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2008 NCZ071-082-SCZ009-061830- MECKLENBURG-UNION-YORK- 132 PM EDT SUN JUL 6 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN YORK...MECKLENBURG AND NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM EDT... AT 128 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FORT MILL...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCK HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 18 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO I-77 AT I-85...CAROWINDS...UNIONVILLE...CENTER CITY CHARLOTTE...SOUTHPARK MALL...EASTLAND MALL...UNC CHARLOTTE...WEDDINGTON...WAXHAW... STALLINGS...PINEVILLE...MINT HILL...MATTHEWS...INDIAN TRAIL... FAIRVIEW...CROFT...TEGA CAY AND FORT MILL. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING IS EXPECTED TO OCCUR 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. 07
Local storm report, Jul 6, 2:21 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 1:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, Polk, Rutherford | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 3:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Union | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 57 min |
| Jul 6, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.