Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 316, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2013, 1:51 PM EDT for Burke County, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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
- Aug 31, 2013, 1:51 PM EDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2013, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 Aug 31, 11:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 11:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 31, 12:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1249 PM EDT SAT AUG 31 2013 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ036-037-057-069>072-082-SCZ001>014-019- 011700- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-IREDELL-DAVIE-ROWAN- LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-OCONEE MOUNTAINS- PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 1249 PM EDT SAT AUG 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA TODAY AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. DUE TO COPIOUS MOISTURE AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIALLY LEADING TO ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. NCZ033-035-048>053-056-058-059-062>065-068-501>510-011700- AVERY-ALEXANDER-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE- CATAWBA-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL- BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL- RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK- 1249 PM EDT SAT AUG 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO TRACK NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS DURING THE MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. IF THE LINE REMAINS ORGANIZED ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS...WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 40 MPH COULD BE COMMON. THE COMBINATION OF THE WET SOIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS MAY RESULT IN AREAS OF DOWNED TREES AND POWERLINES. A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH....RESULTING IN MORE SUBSTANTIAL WIND DAMAGE THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. NED
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 1:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Caldwell | 109 min |
| Aug 31, 2:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 44 min |
| Aug 31, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 42 min |
| Aug 31, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 51 min |
| Aug 31, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 51 min |
| Aug 31, 3:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 42 min |
| Aug 31, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 62 min |
| Aug 31, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 49 min |
| Aug 31, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 52 min |
| Aug 31, 1:53 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 43 min |
| Aug 31, 2:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 57 min |
| Aug 31, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 67 min |
| Aug 31, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 41 min |
| Aug 31, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 45 min |
| Aug 31, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 51 min |
| Aug 31, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 42 min |
| Aug 31, 5:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 51 min |
| Aug 31, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 46 min |
| Aug 31, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 38 min |
| Aug 31, 6:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 39 min |
| Aug 31, 7:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Abbeville | 97 min |
| Aug 31, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham, Stephens | 50 min |
| Aug 31, 3:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham, Stephens | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert | 47 min |
| Aug 31, 7:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Elbert | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.