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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 4, 2008Transylvania County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 4, 2008, 5:03 PM EST for Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 4, 2008, 5:03 PM EST (22:03 UTC)
Expired: Mar 4, 2008, 5:31 PM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Transylvania County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 4, 5:04 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Brevard, NC	POWER LINES DOWN IN BREVARD

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 4, 12:04 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 260 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 451 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 042205
TORGSP
NCC175-042300-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0003.080304T2203Z-080304T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
503 PM EST TUE MAR 4 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 459 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BREVARD...OR ABOUT OVER ROSMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BREVARD AROUND 510 PM EST...

THIS TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED BECAUSE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
THERE IS HIGH POTENTIAL FOR THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF A BRIEF...
ISOLATED TORNADO WITHIN THE WARNED AREA. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES
SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER. OTHERWISE...GO TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR PLACE OF BUSINESS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST TUESDAY EVENING 
FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND CENTRAL SOUTH 
CAROLINA.

TO REPORT TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR FLOODING...
THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...
1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.

LAT...LON 3541 8274 3515 8258 3505 8296 3518 8296
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 239DEG 33KT 3519 8279

$$

NED

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KGSP 042231
SVSGSP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
529 PM EST TUE MAR 4 2008

NCC175-042239-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080304T2300Z/
TRANSYLVANIA NC-
529 PM EST TUE MAR 4 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS MOVED EAST OUT OF 
THE COUNTY INTO HENDERSON COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING 
HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3541 8274 3515 8258 3505 8296 3518 8296
TIME...MOT...LOC 2229Z 239DEG 33KT 3531 8254

$$

NED

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 3:24 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more	18 hr
Mar 4, 12:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Polk	41 min
Mar 4, 1:40 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Transylvania	4 hr
Mar 4, 2:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham, Macon, Swain	88 min
Mar 4, 5:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson	37 min
Mar 4, 5:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell, Polk, Rutherford	62 min
Mar 4, 6:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston and 1 more	73 min
Mar 4, 6:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	70 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.