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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 15, 20247 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2024, 2:59 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
May 15, 2024, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
May 15, 2024, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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 nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 258 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 2024-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2024-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
734 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 12:30 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSwain30 min
May 15, 12:47 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison28 min
May 15, 12:58 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood32 min
May 15, 3:54 AM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryGSPAlexander, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and 1 more6 hr
May 15, 1:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland27 min
May 15, 1:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg25 min
May 15, 1:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg28 min
May 15, 2:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell29 min
May 15, 2:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion31 min
May 15, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba40 min
May 15, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford33 min
May 15, 2:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion46 min
May 15, 3:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell27 min
May 15, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania29 min
May 15, 3:34 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPMecklenburg33 min
May 15, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba, Lincoln44 min
May 15, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg, Union44 min
May 15, 4:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland39 min
May 15, 4:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLincoln46 min
May 15, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg, Union58 min
May 15, 4:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston36 min
May 15, 5:14 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPUnion3 hr
May 15, 5:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg50 min
May 15, 6:31 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPMecklenburg119 min
May 14, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville39 min
May 14, 9:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville, Greenwood43 min
May 14, 9:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood47 min
May 15, 1:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens40 min
May 15, 1:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens31 min
May 15, 2:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee33 min
May 15, 2:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville35 min
May 15, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee, Spartanburg41 min
May 15, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, York57 min
May 15, 3:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCherokee, Spartanburg2 hr
May 15, 3:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCherokee2 hr
May 15, 4:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville, Pickens34 min
May 15, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville, Spartanburg40 min
May 15, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester, Laurens, Union49 min
May 14, 8:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHart42 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.