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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2008, 6:44 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 26, 2008, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2008, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Cabarrus County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 858 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 Apr 26, 3:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 3:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 420 AM EDT SAT APR 26 2008 GAZ010-017-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501-503-505-507-509- SCZ001>003-270830- RABUN-HABERSHAM-AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE- GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-BURKE MOUNTAINS-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-POLK MOUNTAINS-OCONEE MOUNTAINS- PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- 420 AM EDT SAT APR 26 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT TODAY. THE COVERAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST TO PEAK ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...PERIODS OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND GUSTY WINDS. ONE OR TWO OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE PENNEY SIZED HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AROUND SUNRISE TUESDAY. THESE TEMPERATURES MAY RESULT IN A LIGHT FREEZE OR FROST...ESPECIALLY ABOVE 3000 FEET IN ELEVATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506-508- 510-SCZ004>014-019-270830- STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- GREATER CALDWELL-GREATER BURKE-EASTERN MCDOWELL-GREATER RUTHERFORD- EASTERN POLK-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE- SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC- CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 420 AM EDT SAT APR 26 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT TODAY. THE COVERAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST TO PEAK ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...PERIODS OF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND GUSTY WINDS. ONE OR TWO OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE PENNEY SIZED HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NED
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 12:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 42 min |
| Apr 26, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 43 min |
| Apr 26, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 64 min |
| Apr 26, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 56 min |
| Apr 26, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 57 min |
| Apr 26, 7:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus | 119 min |
| Apr 26, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 70 min |
| Apr 26, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg, Union | 75 min |
| Apr 26, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 91 min |
| Apr 26, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 61 min |
| Apr 26, 7:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Laurens | 119 min |
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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.