Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 424, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 30, 2008, 9:00 PM EDT for Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 20 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 30, 2008, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2008, 9:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Rowan County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 1450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 30, 7:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 30, 7:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 30, 3:29 PM EDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 329 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-011930- 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- 329 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LOOK FOR SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH THIS EVENING...WITH ISOLATED STORMS OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA INTO UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE...BUT THE MAIN HAZARD EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS IS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 30, 6:28 PM EDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
628 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0610 PM HAIL 5 NNE STATESVILLE 35.85N 80.85W
09/30/2008 E1.25 INCH IREDELL NC TRAINED SPOTTER
0610 PM HAIL 6 SE STATESVILLE 35.73N 80.81W
09/30/2008 E1.00 INCH IREDELL NC AMATEUR RADIO
NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF BETHESDA ROAD AND ARTIST LANE
&&
BSHLocal storm report, Sep 30, 6:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
635 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0615 PM HAIL HARRIS 35.24N 81.87W
09/30/2008 E1.00 INCH RUTHERFORD NC TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
NEDSpecial weather statement, Sep 30, 6:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 649 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 NCZ035-302315- ALEXANDER- 649 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN ALEXANDER COUNTY THROUGH 715 PM EDT... AT 647 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF TAYLORSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 26 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TAYLORSVILLE. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. MCAVOY
Local storm report, Sep 30, 6:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
651 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0643 PM HAIL 3 SW FOREST CITY 35.31N 81.91W
09/30/2008 E0.75 INCH RUTHERFORD NC TRAINED SPOTTER
IN THE DANIELTOWN AREA.
&&
BSHLocal storm report, Sep 30, 7:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
724 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0710 PM HAIL 8 SE FOREST CITY 35.25N 81.77W
09/30/2008 E0.75 INCH RUTHERFORD NC AMATEUR RADIO
NEAR HW-120 AND FAMILY DR.
&&
BSHLocal storm report, Sep 30, 8:35 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
835 PM EDT TUE SEP 30 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0822 PM HAIL 2 SW SALISBURY 35.65N 80.51W
09/30/2008 E0.75 INCH ROWAN NC TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
NEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 41 min |
| Sep 30, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 39 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.