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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2010, 3:13 PM EDT for Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- May 15, 2010, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2010, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Transylvania County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 1200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 May 15, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 247 PM EDT SAT MAY 15 2010 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-161900- 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- 247 PM EDT SAT MAY 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE THROUGH MID EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES IN FROM THE NORTH. SOME STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. IN ADDITION...SLOW MOVING STORMS COULD PRODUCE AREAS OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AGAIN SUNDAY WITH THE APPROACH OF A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD ALSO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. SEVERAL OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...POSSIBLY RESULTING IN AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. NED
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 15, 2:14 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, May 15, 2:29 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
229 PM EDT SAT MAY 15 2010
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0206 PM HAIL 1 E HIGHLANDS 35.05N 83.18W
05/15/2010 E1.00 INCH MACON NC FIRE DEPT/RESCUE
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KRENTZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford | 66 min |
| May 14, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Davie, Iredell and 1 more | 76 min |
| May 14, 8:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford | 116 min |
| May 14, 9:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Polk and 1 more | 67 min |
| May 14, 10:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and 3 more | 41 min |
| May 14, 11:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 44 min |
| May 15, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania | 56 min |
| May 15, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 55 min |
| May 15, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 58 min |
| May 15, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison | 42 min |
| May 15, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Macon | 67 min |
| May 15, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 45 min |
| May 15, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 62 min |
| May 15, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 50 min |
| May 15, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 37 min |
| May 15, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 23 min |
| May 15, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 64 min |
| May 15, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 63 min |
| May 15, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 67 min |
| May 15, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 55 min |
| May 15, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 32 min |
| May 15, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 64 min |
| May 15, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 33 min |
| May 15, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 42 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.