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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2009, 8:00 PM EDT for Avery County, Burke County, Mitchell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 75 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 16, 2009, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2009, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 75 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Mitchell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 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 16, 7:07 PM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 7:07 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 341 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-171945- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA- ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- 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-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 341 PM EDT TUE JUN 16 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. MOST OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA HAS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE AREA FROM HICKORY AND CHARLOTTE TO THE WEST SHOULD SEE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY UNTIL MIDNIGHT. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. MEANWHILE...THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA AND FROM HICKORY TO THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA COULD EXPERIENCE HEAVY RAIN IN PERSISTENT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED LATER TODAY FOR ALL OR PART OF THIS AREA...PERHAPS EVEN THE AREA NEAR THE BLUE RIDGE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. HEAT INDEX VALUES OF 105 DEGREES ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY IN THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 7:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Madison | 53 min |
| Jun 17, 8:59 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, Polk | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 9:14 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, Polk | 31 min |
| Jun 16, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 61 min |
| Jun 17, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 62 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.