Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2010, 3:23 PM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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 25, 2010, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2010, 4:14 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Buncombe County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 2840 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 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 Jul 24, 7:05 PM EDT, 20 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 7:05 PM EDT, 20 hours 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 3:30 PM EDT, 23 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 330 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 2010 GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ069>072-082-SCZ004>014-019-251930- STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS- UNION NC-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE- SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC- CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 330 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 2010 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM EDT SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON 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. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NCZ068-SCZ001>003-251930- CLEVELAND-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- 330 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 2010 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON 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. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. GAZ010-017-NCZ033-035-048>053-056-058-059-062>065-501>510-251930- RABUN-HABERSHAM-AVERY-ALEXANDER-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- 330 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NCZ036-037-057-251930- IREDELL-DAVIE-ROWAN- 330 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 2010 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM EDT SUNDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 41 min |
| Jul 25, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 52 min |
| Jul 25, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 46 min |
| Jul 25, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 43 min |
| Jul 25, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell | 66 min |
| Jul 25, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell, Rowan | 59 min |
| Jul 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 30 min |
| Jul 25, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 46 min |
| Jul 25, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln | 57 min |
| Jul 25, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 56 min |
| Jul 25, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 50 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.