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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 60 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 11, 2008, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2008, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Rowan County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 951 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 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 11, 12:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 12:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 11, 1:45 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 145 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008 NCZ036-069>071-111830- GASTON-IREDELL-LINCOLN-MECKLENBURG- 145 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT EASTERN LINCOLN...NORTHEASTERN GASTON...NORTHERN MECKLENBURG AND SOUTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM EDT... AT 142 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM DENVER TO MOUNT HOLLY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... MOUNTAIN ISLAND LAKE BY 150 PM EDT. DAVIDSON BY 155 PM EDT. HUNTERSVILLE BY 200 PM EDT. UNC CHARLOTTE BY 210 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. NED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 4:11 AM EDT | High Wind Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Graham, Haywood and 11 more | 38 hr |
| May 11, 4:11 AM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more | 38 hr |
| May 11, 4:11 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 16 more | 34 hr |
| May 11, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell | 41 min |
| May 11, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford | 50 min |
| May 11, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 44 min |
| May 11, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln | 36 min |
| May 11, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 53 min |
| May 11, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 35 min |
| May 11, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 62 min |
| May 11, 2:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 33 min |
| May 11, 3:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 23 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.