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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2009, 5:51 PM EDT for Alexander County, Caldwell County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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 3, 2009, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2009, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Alexander County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Iredell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 1285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 890 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 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 3, 2:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 344 PM EDT WED JUN 3 2009 NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056-058-059-062>065-501>510-041945- AVERY-ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-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- 344 PM EDT WED JUN 3 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION INTO THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ057-068>072-082-SCZ001>014-019-041945- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-ROWAN-CLEVELAND- LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-OCONEE MOUNTAINS- PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 344 PM EDT WED JUN 3 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR...AND EVEN A FEW OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 1:48 PM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 526 PM EDT WED JUN 3 2009 NCZ035-036-032230- ALEXANDER-IREDELL- 526 PM EDT WED JUN 3 2009 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ALEXANDER AND NORTHERN IREDELL COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM EDT... AT 526 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF TAYLORSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO UNION GROVE...TAYLORSVILLE...MILLERSVILLE...LOVE VALLEY AND HIDDENITE. SMALL HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. 07
Local storm report, Jun 3, 5:50 PM EDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
550 PM EDT WED JUN 03 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0132 PM HAIL 3 NW MARSHALL 35.83N 82.72W
06/03/2009 E0.75 INCH MADISON NC PUBLIC
A PUBLIC REPORT OF PENNY SIZED HAIL OCCURRED SOUTH OF
WALNUT ON CODY ROAD.
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OUTLAWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison | 45 min |
| Jun 3, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 25 min |
| Jun 3, 6:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 50 min |
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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.