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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 15, 20105 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2010, 3:30 PM EDT for 5 counties in 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 15, 2010, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2010, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Rowan County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 300 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2010-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3097 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2010-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3097 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 15, 2:57 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:57 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 6:01 AM EDT, 9 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
601 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>010-161015-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-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-
601 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS.
THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE
STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER
THREAT BEING LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION...STORMS
THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY...CREATING THE POTENTIAL FOR
LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING WILL
BE MOST LIKELY IN URBAN AREAS...AND IN THE MOUNTAINS...WHERE
STORMS MAY BECOME ANCHORED ALONG TERRAIN FEATURES.

IN ADDITION TO THE FLOODING AND SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...HIGH
TEMPERATURES WILL ONCE AGAIN REACH THE MID AND UPPER 90S ACROSS
MUCH OF THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH A HUMID
AIR MASS TO PRODUCE HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE 100 TO 104 RANGE
ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE.

GAZ029-SCZ011>014-019-161015-
ELBERT-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
601 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE
SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   HEAT ADVISORY.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS THE PIEDMONT AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS.
THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE
STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER
THREAT BEING LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION...STORMS
THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY...CREATING THE POTENTIAL FOR
LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING WILL
BE MOST LIKELY IN URBAN AREAS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE.

LANE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 2:58 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 15, 3:16 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
316 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0255 PM     TSTM WND DMG     SALUDA                  35.24N 82.35W
06/15/2010                   POLK               NC   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREE DOWN ON INTERSTATE 26 NEAR SALUDA.

&&

RAS
Local storm report, Jun 15, 3:29 PM EDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
329 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0145 PM     HAIL             2 NNE MORGANTON         35.77N 81.68W
06/15/2010  E1.00 INCH       BURKE              NC   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

RAS
Local storm report, Jun 15, 3:30 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
330 PM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0145 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MORGANTON               35.74N 81.70W
06/15/2010                   BURKE              NC   EMERGENCY MNGR

            TREE BLOWN INTO POWER LINES IN MORGANTON. SEVERAL TREES
            DOWN AROUND THE CITY.

&&

RAS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 12:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe40 min
Jun 15, 1:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke, Caldwell, McDowell74 min
Jun 15, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke76 min
Jun 15, 1:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander32 min
Jun 15, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander, Caldwell, Catawba, Iredell80 min
Jun 15, 1:59 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPHenderson2 hr
Jun 15, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson, Polk, Rutherford52 min
Jun 15, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan68 min
Jun 15, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk, Rutherford58 min
Jun 15, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland74 min
Jun 15, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg, Union59 min
Jun 15, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson, Transylvania59 min
Jun 15, 5:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion39 min
Jun 15, 5:20 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPTransylvania115 min
Jun 15, 3:27 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryGSPAbbeville, Chester, Greenwood, Laurens, Union17 hr
Jun 15, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee55 min
Jun 15, 4:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens23 min
Jun 15, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, York63 min
Jun 15, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens63 min
Jun 15, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville30 min
Jun 15, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson72 min
Jun 15, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville70 min
Jun 15, 7:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg41 min
Jun 15, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens79 min
Jun 15, 7:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.