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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 23, 2024Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, Union County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2024, 3:10 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, Mecklenburg County, Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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
Jul 23, 2024, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2024, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Union County, NC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 244 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2024-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 73 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2024-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 8:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk34 min
Jul 22, 8:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell26 min
Jul 22, 8:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk41 min
Jul 22, 10:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander39 min
Jul 22, 10:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell36 min
Jul 23, 2:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg41 min
Jul 23, 2:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg23 min
Jul 23, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus28 min
Jul 23, 3:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion34 min
Jul 23, 4:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion25 min
Jul 23, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion27 min
Jul 23, 5:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania33 min
Jul 23, 7:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg33 min
Jul 23, 7:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk28 min
Jul 23, 7:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPGaston, Mecklenburg3 hr
Jul 23, 7:29 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCleveland, Rutherford2 hr
Jul 23, 7:32 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPHenderson, Polk2 hr
Jul 23, 7:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg35 min
Jul 23, 7:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland23 min
Jul 22, 9:37 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPGreenville, Spartanburg113 min
Jul 22, 9:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg46 min
Jul 22, 11:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee45 min
Jul 23, 2:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork42 min
Jul 23, 6:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion32 min
Jul 23, 6:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens28 min
Jul 23, 6:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson27 min
Jul 23, 6:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee25 min
Jul 23, 6:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork33 min
Jul 22, 10:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHabersham, Rabun51 min
Jul 23, 4:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPFranklin51 min
Jul 23, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHart33 min
Jul 23, 5:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun28 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.