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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 412, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2008, 10:27 PM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 8, 2008, 10:27 PM EDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 2008, 11:03 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Iredell County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 Sep 8, 10:04 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 10:04 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1050 AM EDT MON SEP 8 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-091500- 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- 1050 AM EDT MON SEP 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL AND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE PRIMARY THREATS ASSOCIATED WITH STRONGER STORMS TODAY. A FEW OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON TUESDAY AS A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA FROM THE NORTH. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND/OR LARGE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 9:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 915 PM EDT MON SEP 8 2008 SCZ001-004-090145- GREATER OCONEE-OCONEE MOUNTAINS- 915 PM EDT MON SEP 8 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL OCONEE COUNTY THROUGH 945 PM EDT... AT 910 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SENECA...OR 11 MILES SOUTH OF WALHALLA...MOVING NORTH AT 22 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... SENECA BY 920 PM EDT. WALHALLA BY 940 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LANE
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 9:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 922 PM EDT MON SEP 8 2008 NCZ036-056-069-071-090145- CATAWBA-IREDELL-LINCOLN-MECKLENBURG- 922 PM EDT MON SEP 8 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN LINCOLN...NORTHERN MECKLENBURG...SOUTHEASTERN CATAWBA AND SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES THROUGH 945 PM EDT... AT 919 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF LAKE NORMAN...OR 17 MILES EAST OF LINCOLNTON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 13 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE NORMAN BY 935 PM EDT. DENVER BY 940 PM EDT. TERRELL BY 945 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LANE
Special weather statement, Sep 8, 9:53 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 9:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln | 47 min |
| Sep 8, 11:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Iredell, Rowan | 119 min |
| Sep 8, 11:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell | 111 min |
| Sep 9, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Rutherford | 35 min |
| Sep 9, 3:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Iredell | 117 min |
| Sep 9, 5:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Caldwell | 48 min |
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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.