Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2008, 7:33 PM EDT for Burke County, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 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
- May 8, 2008, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2008, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 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 May 8, 6:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 6:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 4:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 443 PM EDT THU MAY 8 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-092045- 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- 443 PM EDT THU MAY 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT OVER PARTS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL BRING ATLANTIC MOISTURE INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT AND THE UPSTATE EAST OF SPARTANBURG. AS LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST...WIND SHEAR WILL INCREASE DURING THE EVENING HOURS. THE COMBINATION OF INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR WILL RESULT IN A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM HICKORY TO SPARTANBURG TO CLEMSON LATER THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING MAY BE PARTICULARLY STRONG...PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN A BRIEF TORNADO. THE AREA THAT HAS THE GREATEST CHANCE OF SEEING SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ACROSS THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY AND ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 85. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION SUNDAY EVENING...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER TO MUCH OF THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 8, 7:17 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 717 PM EDT THU MAY 8 2008 NCZ033-501>505-082345- AVERY-BURKE MOUNTAINS-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-GREATER CALDWELL-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS- 717 PM EDT THU MAY 8 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN MCDOWELL...NORTHERN CALDWELL...NORTHWESTERN BURKE AND SOUTHEASTERN AVERY COUNTIES THROUGH 745 PM EDT... AT 717 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKE JAMES...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 36 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO UPTON... PATTERSON...GLOBE...EDGEMONT...TABLE ROCK...COLLETTSVILLE AND ASHFORD. LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. JPT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.