Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 306, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2010, 7:09 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 19 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
- Jul 20, 2010, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2010, 7:28 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 922 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 23 min |
| Jul 20, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 50 min |
| Jul 20, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 27 min |
| Jul 20, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 26 min |
| Jul 20, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 28 min |
| Jul 20, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 19 min |
| Jul 20, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Rutherford | 67 min |
| Jul 20, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell | 47 min |
| Jul 20, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.