Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 269
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 9, 2014, 4:34 PM EDT for 24 counties in North Carolina; 22 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2014, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2014, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 46 counties
Alexander County, NC, Anson County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 30%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens | 54 min |
| Jun 9, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 22 min |
| Jun 9, 7:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 51 min |
| Jun 9, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Rowan | 38 min |
| Jun 9, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Randolph | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Randolph | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Randolph | 40 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Cleveland, Columbus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Polk and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 11 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2014Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2014Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2014
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.