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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2009, 3:59 PM EDT for Graham County, Swain 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
- Jun 2, 2009, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2009, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Graham County, NC, Swain County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 276 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
- 1479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1358 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 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 Jun 2, 3:03 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:03 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 605 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009 GAZ010-017-018-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501>510-SCZ001>003- 031015- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-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- 605 AM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS THIS AFTERNOON. ALTHOUGH THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. LANE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 1:59 PM EDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 159 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009 NCZ059-062-063-021845- MACON-NORTHERN JACKSON-SOUTHERN JACKSON- 159 PM EDT TUE JUN 2 2009 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN MACON AND SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTIES THROUGH 245 PM EDT... AT 158 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF LAKE THORPE...OR 16 MILES EAST OF FRANKLIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LAKE THORPE...WOLF MOUNTAIN...TUCKASEGEE AND CASHIERS. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. NED
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 2:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson | 54 min |
| Jun 2, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Haywood, Madison | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Madison | 59 min |
| Jun 2, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford | 56 min |
| Jun 2, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison | 36 min |
| Jun 2, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell | 66 min |
| Jun 2, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009
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.