Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 9, 2011, 5:24 PM EDT for York County, South Carolina; Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2011, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 9, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Gaston County, NC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 5:30 PM EDT | HAIL 1.25 | Clover, SC | |
| Apr 9, 5:30 PM EDT | HAIL 2 | Clover, SC | |
| Apr 9, 5:30 PM EDT | HAIL 4 | Clover, SC | NUMEROUS HAILSTONES OF THIS SIZE REPORTED |
| Apr 9, 5:33 PM EDT | HAIL 2 | Clover, SC | |
| Apr 9, 5:47 PM EDT | HAIL 2 | 5 Wsw Lake Wylie, SC | HW-55 AND SOUTH KINGSBURY RD |
| Apr 9, 5:52 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Tega Cay, SC | |
| Apr 9, 5:58 PM EDT | HAIL 2 | Fort Mill, SC |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS52 KGSP 092124
TORGSP
NCC071-SCC091-092200-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0014.110409T2124Z-110409T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
524 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL GASTON COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...
NORTHERN YORK COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF YORK...
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CLOVER...OR
9 MILES NORTH OF YORK...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LAKE
WYLIE...TEGA CAY AND FORT MILL
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER.
OTHERWISE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME
OR PLACE OF BUSINESS. MAKE SURE THERE ARE AS MANY WALLS AND FLOORS
BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.
TO REPORT TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR FLOODING...
THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...
1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.
&&
LAT...LON 3499 8135 3519 8130 3516 8101 3515 8105
3511 8103 3509 8106 3506 8106 3503 8095
3494 8088
TIME...MOT...LOC 2124Z 292DEG 35KT 3511 8119
$$
NED2 follow-up statements
111
WWUS52 KGSP 092150
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
550 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
NCC071-SCC091-092200-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-110409T2200Z/
GASTON NC-YORK SC-
550 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR NORTHERN
YORK AND SOUTH CENTRAL GASTON COUNTIES...
AT 547 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TEGA CAY...OR NEAR
ROCK HILL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS
IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO FORT
MILL
LAT...LON 3499 8135 3519 8130 3516 8101 3515 8105
3511 8103 3509 8106 3506 8106 3503 8095
3494 8088
TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 292DEG 35KT 3497 8099
$$
NED930
WWUS52 KGSP 092159
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
559 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
NCC071-SCC091-092208-
/O.EXP.KGSP.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-110409T2200Z/
GASTON NC-YORK SC-
559 PM EDT SAT APR 9 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN YORK AND SOUTH CENTRAL GASTON
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM EDT...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR YORK COUNTY
UNTIL 630 PM.
LAT...LON 3499 8135 3519 8130 3516 8101 3515 8105
3511 8103 3509 8106 3506 8106 3503 8095
3494 8088
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 292DEG 35KT 3494 8090
$$
NEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 62 min |
| Apr 9, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 46 min |
| Apr 9, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 53 min |
| Apr 9, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 64 min |
| Apr 9, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 52 min |
| Apr 9, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 34 min |
| Apr 9, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | York | 12 min |
| Apr 9, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 58 min |
| Apr 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 12 min |
| Apr 9, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 38 min |
| Apr 9, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, York | 67 min |
| Apr 9, 2:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Mitchell, Yancey | 53 min |
| Apr 9, 3:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 63 min |
| Apr 9, 1:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 43 min |
| Apr 9, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Yancey | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 52 min |
| Apr 9, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 29 min |
| Apr 9, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Madison, Yancey | 24 min |
| Apr 9, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 57 min |
| Apr 9, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Yancey | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 37 min |
| Apr 9, 3:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford | 47 min |
| Apr 9, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 46 min |
| Apr 9, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Rutherford | 41 min |
| Apr 9, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 53 min |
| Apr 9, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell, Rutherford | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Lincoln, Rutherford | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Apr 9, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 62 min |
| Apr 9, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Mitchell, Yancey | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 65 min |
| Apr 9, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 28 min |
| Apr 9, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison, Swain, Yancey | 65 min |
| Apr 9, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Apr 9, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 40 min |
| Apr 9, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford | 56 min |
| Apr 9, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Yancey | 45 min |
| Apr 9, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 60 min |
| Apr 9, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania | 36 min |
| Apr 9, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell, Polk, Rutherford | 26 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.