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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2024, 8:01 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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
- Apr 11, 2024, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2024, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Rowan County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Apr 11, 7:29 PM EDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 11, 7:29 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 300 PM EDT Thu Apr 11 2024 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-051-056>058-062-068>072-082- 502-504-506-508-510-SCZ008>014-019-101>109-121900- Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Alexander-Iredell- Davie-Swain-Catawba-Rowan-Graham-Macon-Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston- Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union NC-Greater Caldwell-Greater Burke- Eastern McDowell-Greater Rutherford-Eastern Polk-Cherokee-York- Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens-Union SC-Chester-Greenwood- Oconee Mountains-Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains- Greater Oconee-Greater Pickens-Central Greenville- Southern Greenville-Northern Spartanburg-Southern Spartanburg- 300 PM EDT Thu Apr 11 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and early evening. Some of the storms may produce heavy rainfall, possibly leading to isolated flooding. Isolated severe storms are also possible this afternoon and early evening, with damaging winds being main threat. However, an isolated, brief tornado cannot be entirely ruled out this afternoon, especially over the North Carolina Piedmont near the I-77 corridor. Gusty non-thunderstorm winds will continue through late tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Gusty winds return again on Friday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. NCZ033-048>050-052-053-059-063>065-501-503-505-507-509-121900- Avery-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Haywood-Buncombe-Northern Jackson- Southern Jackson-Transylvania-Henderson-Caldwell Mountains- Burke Mountains-McDowell Mountains-Rutherford Mountains- Polk Mountains- 300 PM EDT Thu Apr 11 2024 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO 9 PM EDT FRIDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and early evening. Some of the storms may produce heavy rainfall, possibly leading to isolated flooding. Isolated severe storms are also possible this afternoon and early evening, with damaging winds being main threat. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. AR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 11, 7:23 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Rowan | 38 min |
| Apr 12, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 33 min |
| Apr 12, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 36 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.