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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 16, 2011Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 2011, 4:15 PM EST for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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: Nov 16, 2011, 4:15 PM EST (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2011, 4:45 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Cleveland County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 16, 4:18 PM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Shelby, NC	TREES REPORTED DOWN AND POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO A MOBILE HOME OFF AIRPORT RD IN SHELBY, NC.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

011 
WFUS52 KGSP 162115
TORGSP
NCC045-162145-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0039.111116T2115Z-111116T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
415 PM EST WED NOV 16 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLEVELAND COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SHELBY...

* UNTIL 445 PM EST

* AT 411 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BOILING
  SPRINGS NC...OR 8 MILES WEST OF SHELBY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHELBY...KINGSTOWN AND PATTERSON SPRINGS...
  LAWNDALE...
  WACO...FALLSTON AND BELWOOD...

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 3541 8145 3536 8141 3533 8136 3532 8136
      3517 8162 3518 8170 3524 8176 3534 8171
      3537 8169 3549 8150
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 232DEG 37KT 3528 8163

$$

1 follow-up statement

180 
WWUS52 KGSP 162129
SVSGSP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
429 PM EST WED NOV 16 2011

NCC045-162145-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-111116T2145Z/
CLEVELAND NC-
429 PM EST WED NOV 16 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EST FOR CENTRAL
CLEVELAND COUNTY...

AT 427 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF
SHELBY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WACO

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3539 8144 3536 8141 3533 8136 3532 8136
      3528 8147 3526 8154 3528 8160 3533 8157
      3541 8145 3541 8144
TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 238DEG 38KT 3535 8148

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 16, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan	66 min
Nov 16, 5:20 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Iredell, Rowan	40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.