Gusty winds toppled a large tree, which fell on a vehicle at the corner of East Bvd and Asheville Place in Charlotte. The impact killed the 53-year-old woman driving the vehicle.
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Gusty winds toppled a large tree, which fell on a vehicle at the corner of East Bvd and Asheville Place in Charlotte. The impact killed the 53-year-old woman driving the vehicle.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Mar 9, 12:58 PM EST, 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 158 PM EDT SUN MAR 9 2008 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE THE DOMINATE WEATHER FEATURE OVER THE SOUTHEAST STATES THROUGH MID WEEK...WITH A FEW WEAK SYSTEMS OCCASIONALLY PROVIDING BRIEF INCREASES OF CLOUDS. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH OUR AREA ON FRIDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL RETURN ON SATURDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... BROAD HIGH PRESSURE WILL PROVIDE LIGHT WINDS...LOW DEWPOINTS...AND MOSTLY CLEAR CONDITIONS TONIGHT. THE CENTER OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL ADVANCE EAST THIS EVENING...ALLOWING WEAK RETURN FLOW ACROSS THE REGION. SLOW LLVL WAA SHOULD TAKE PLACE OVERNIGHT...WARMING A FEW DEGREES CELSIUS AT H85. IN ADDITION...A PATCH OF THIN CIRRUS MAY DRIFT OVER THE MTNS AND FOOTHILLS DURING THE LATE NIGHT HOURS. CONDITIONS SHOULD FAVOR RADIATIONAL COOLING TONIGHT...WITH MINS RANGING FROM THE MID 20S IN THE MTN VALLEYS TO 30-34 EAST. WAA SHOULD RESULT IN SLIGHTLY WARMER MTN TOPS...WITH COOLER AIR DRAINING INTO THE VALLEYS. && .SHORT TERM /MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... AS OF 230 AM SUNDAY...MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH KEEPING CONFLUENT QUASI/ZONAL FLOW ALOFT TONIGHT THROUGH MON. THE 00Z NAM12 SOUNDINGS INDICATE DEEP LAYERED SUBSIDENCE THROUGH THE SHORT TERM AND PW VALUE AROUND 0.30 IN MON...DROPPING TO THE MID TEENS ON TUE. A LIGHT LLVL SW/LY FLOW WILL DEVELOP EACH AFTERNOON AND MAX TEMPS SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM REACHING THE M60S MON ACROSS THE NON/MTNS...AND L60S TUE AFTER A WEAK FROPA. VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF MIXING LOWER TDS TO THE SFC AS MOMENTUM TRANSFER SHOULD REMAIN WEAK...HOWEVER THE TREND HAS BEEN FOR A DRIER AIRMASS ACCORDING TO MOS GUIDANCE AND THE POTENTIAL DOES EXIST FOR A FIRE WEATHER CONCERN ACROSS NE GA MON/TUE AFTERNOONS. A RELATIVELY WEAK UPPER LEVEL S/W APPROACHES THE MTNS MON NIGHT AND THE NAM IS MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH THE DPVA THAN THE GFS...HOWEVER THE GFS IS MUCH MOISTER. BOTH MODELS ARE BRINGING LLVL MOISTURE ALL THE WAY AROUND LLVL RIDGING EXTENDING INTO LA/TX AND WILL NOT EXPECT MUCH PRECIP OUT OF THE ATTENDANT SFC FRONT. THE BEST TIMEFRAME FOR ANY PRECIP WILL BE BTW 00Z AND 06Z TUE...BEGINNING AS -RA THEN SWITCHING OVER TO A MIX AND -SN THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING. NO SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED AND THE ATMOS WILL DRY UP QUICKLY BEHIND FRONT AS A DECENT THETA/E TROF PUSHES ACROSS THE MTNS AND INTO THE FOOTHILLS/PIEDMONT THROUGH MID DAY TUE. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 3 AM SUNDAY...THE GFS AND ECMWF CONTINUE TO SHOW THE SOUTHERN STREAM SHORTWAVE CROSSING THE DEEP SOUTH IN MID WEEK...ALTHOUGH THE GFS BASICALLY HAS NO PRECIP AND FAR SOUTH AND THE ECMWF HAS MORE PRECIP HUGGING THE GULF COAST THEN ACROSS FLORIDA. BASICALLY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF WEATHER DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD UNTIL LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY WHEN THE LOW AND ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT REACHES OUR AREA FROM THE WEST AND SOUTH. THE GFS HAS THE LOW DEVELOPING ALONG THE GULF COAST AS IT REACHES THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. IT THEN MOVES UP THE CAROLINA COAST CARRYING MOST OF THE PRECIP SOUTH AND EAST. THE ECMWF HAS THE LOW MOVING WEST TO EAST RIGHT ACROSS THE UPSTATE ON FRIDAY. OVERALL...THE AMOUNT OF RAIN HAS DECREASED ACCORDING TO THE MODELS...THUS I HAVE TAKEN THE PREVIOUS QPF DOWN SOME. THE LOW MOVES OFF TO THE EAST CARRYING THE RAIN WITH IT AND BECOMING DRY BY MIDNIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT. SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT APPEAR DRY WITH A WEAK SYSTEM POSSIBLY PASSING JUST TO OUR NORTH. && .AVIATION /18Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... BROAD HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE THE SFC PATTERN THROUGH THE TAF PERIOD. CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN VFR WITH LIGHT WINDS. EAST OF THE MTNS...WINDS WILL REMAIN 5 KTS OR LESS FROM THE SW...LIGHT AND VARIABLE OR CALM...BECOMING SOUTH AFTER SUNRISE ON MONDAY. KAVL MAY SEE MARGINAL NORTH GUSTS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...BECOMING NEAR CALM AROUND SUNSET...A LIGHT SOUTH WIND AFTER SUNRISE. A THIN PATCH OF CIRRUS OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SHOULD PASS OVER THE MTNS AND FOOTHILLS OVERNIGHT...OTHERWISE...SKY SHOULD REMAIN CLEAR. OUTLOOK...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...DEO NEAR TERM...NED SHORT TERM...SBK LONG TERM...DEO AVIATION...NED
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 512 AM EDT SUN MAR 9 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-100915- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER- IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA- ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA- HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC- CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE- MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS- GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS- PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK- ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 512 AM EDT SUN MAR 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. KRENTZ
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Gusty winds toppled a large tree, which fell on a vehicle at the corner of East Bvd and Asheville Place. The impact killed the 53-year-old woman driving the vehicle.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong Wind, Mecklenburg | 2008-03-09 | 53 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, March 2008
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