Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2008, 6:24 PM EDT for 5 counties in 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
- May 9, 2008, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2008, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 9, 3:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 9, 6:10 AM EDT, 12 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 610 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2008 GAZ010-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501-503-505-507-509-101015- RABUN-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- 610 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. THE MAIN THREATS FROM ANY STORMS WILL BE IN THE FORM OF BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. GAZ017-018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506- 508-510-SCZ001>014-019-101015- HABERSHAM-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-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 610 AM EDT FRI MAY 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION SUNDAY...BRINGING NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. SOME SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE PIEDMONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LANE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 9, 12:57 PM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1257 PM EDT FRI MAY 09 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0855 PM TSTM WND DMG 7 NE TAYLORSVILLE 35.99N 81.09W
05/08/2008 ALEXANDER NC COUNTY OFFICIAL
A FEW TREES ON POWER LINES IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE
COUNTY. OTHER REPORTS OF POWER LINES DOWN...MAINLY IN THE
NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY.
&&
MOORESpecial weather statement, May 9, 6:17 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 617 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 2008 NCZ036-056-069-071-092245- CATAWBA-IREDELL-LINCOLN-MECKLENBURG- 617 PM EDT FRI MAY 9 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN LINCOLN...NORTHERN MECKLENBURG...SOUTHEASTERN CATAWBA AND SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES THROUGH 645 PM EDT... AT 613 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MAIDEN...OR 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINCOLNTON...MOVING EAST AT 26 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LAKE NORMAN...TERRELL...MOORESVILLE...MAIDEN...LOWESVILLE... LINCOLNTON...HUNTERSVILLE...DENVER...DAVIDSON...CORNELIUS AND BOGER CITY. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ARK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 49 min |
| May 8, 8:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 32 min |
| May 8, 9:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 47 min |
| May 8, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 40 min |
| May 8, 10:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Davie | 47 min |
| May 9, 2:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 35 min |
| May 9, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 62 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.