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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 11, 2014Cabarrus County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 11, 2014, 12:09 PM EST for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 21 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 11, 2014, 12:09 PM EST (17:09 UTC)
Expired: Jan 11, 2014, 12:30 PM EST
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Cabarrus County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:12 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 11, 9:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 35 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 406 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

258 
WFUS52 KGSP 111709
TORGSP
NCC025-111730-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0002.140111T1709Z-140111T1730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1209 PM EST SAT JAN 11 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CABARRUS COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...

* UNTIL 1230 PM EST

* AT 1207 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR MOUNT PLEASANT...OR 10 MILES EAST OF CONCORD...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN CABARRUS
  COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO IS LIKELY DEVELOPING. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A HOUSE OR OFFICE BUILDING. PLACE AS MANY FLOORS
AND WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.

A BRIEF...WEAK TORNADO IS LIKELY. MOBILE HOMES COULD BE FLIPPED.
FALLING TREES CAN CAUSE DEATH OR SERIOUS INJURY...AND MAJOR DAMAGE TO
HOUSES.

PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET
IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND
THE SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED.

&&

LAT...LON 3534 8039 3531 8042 3530 8045 3538 8050
      3551 8031 3550 8030 3549 8030
TIME...MOT...LOC 1708Z 238DEG 42KT 3536 8041

$$
08

1 follow-up statement

989 
WWUS52 KGSP 111721
SVSGSP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1221 PM EST SAT JAN 11 2014

NCC025-111731-
/O.EXP.KGSP.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140111T1730Z/
CABARRUS NC-
1221 PM EST SAT JAN 11 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CABARRUS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 1230 PM EST...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THIS AREA.

LAT...LON 3534 8039 3531 8042 3530 8045 3538 8050
      3551 8031 3550 8030 3549 8030
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 238DEG 42KT 3544 8025

$$
08

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 11, 8:22 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union	2 hr
Jan 11, 8:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon	66 min
Jan 11, 8:55 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	65 min
Jan 11, 9:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Transylvania	56 min
Jan 11, 9:51 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	54 min
Jan 11, 10:15 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	6 hr
Jan 11, 10:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rutherford	66 min
Jan 11, 10:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln	49 min
Jan 11, 11:13 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Catawba, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and 3 more	62 min
Jan 11, 1:20 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Gaston	12 hr
Jan 11, 1:40 PM EST	River Flood Warning	GSP	Gaston	23 hr
Jan 11, 2:29 PM EST	Wind Advisory	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey	19 hr
Jan 11, 3:33 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	6 hr
Jan 11, 3:58 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	6 hr

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.