Gastonwxman Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Storm in Morganton has flared up some in the past several minutes. Now a severe thunderstorm warning issued: Hail storm Burke County, NC 60 dBZ Severe Hail: 70% Hail: 100% Max Hail Size: 1.50" Echo Top: 46,000 ft. VIL: 63 kg/m² * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... northern Cleveland County in the Piedmont of North Carolina... western Lincoln County in the Piedmont of North Carolina... northeastern Rutherford County in western North Carolina... southern Burke County in western North Carolina... * until 545 PM EDT * at 442 PM EDT... National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing quarter size hail... and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was located near Glen Alpine... or 5 miles west of Morganton... moving southeast at 40 mph. * Locations impacted include... Pleasant Grove... Casar... Belwood... Lawndale and Polkville... Fallston... Kingstown and Lattimore... Crouse... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteoutWX Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Storm in Morganton has flared up some in the past several minutes. Now a severe thunderstorm warning issued: Bout the only thing that has been able to get going. Next closest storms well upstream in KY still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NC_hailstorm Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 And of course the 1st big one blows up in the S.Burke/N.Cleveland/W.Lincoln area. Not a surprise but I need to come up with some sort of nickname for that area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastonwxman Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 TVS on the same storm now moving southward around Rutherford/Cleveland county. Also down into extreme southeastern NC where the first severe thunderstorm actually popped, there is a significant severe thunderstorm down that way around Myrtle Beach with another TVS and 3.5" hail. Much stronger than the one I've posted below. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteoutWX Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Really thought we would see some more development by now. Almost no change in the past couple hours with the exception of the one cell west of Gastonia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Well we are trying to chase the storm that got SVR warned that's moving into Cleveland County... looking for a good gas station just outside of Shelby to take shelter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Well we are trying to chase the storm that got SVR warned that's moving into Cleveland County... looking for a good gas station just outside of Shelby to take shelter. Need to head west of Shelby unless you wanna get cored......prolly some decent hail but if there is a lowering or funnel you will be on the wrong side of the storm to see it ( unless it hits you lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Two new cells are firing noth of GSP looks like the upstate of SC is gonna get active shortly..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilkesboroDude Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 * at 537 PM EDT... National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado near hand... or about 9 miles northwest of North Myrtle Beach... moving southwest at 20 mph. * Some locations in the warning include... Myrtle Beach... Socastee... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Need to head west of Shelby unless you wanna get cored......prolly some decent hail but if there is a lowering or funnel you will be on the wrong side of the storm to see it ( unless it hits you lol) Yea... we aren't looking for a tornado... rotation is very weak in the low levels as expected since the low level shear really isn't sufficient to allowing the mesocyclone to be low enough for tornadogenesis. We are just trying to catch some hail... we are under the roof of a Gas station, so we have some shelter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Yea... we aren't looking for a tornado... rotation is very weak in the low levels as expected since the low level shear really isn't sufficient to allowing the mesocyclone to be low enough for tornadogenesis. We are just trying to catch some hail... we are under the roof of a Gas station, so we have some shelter. Cool then you should be ok its a kinda of a strung out mess, good luck have the camera ready the hail core is showing .75" and should cross just west of Shelby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCBlizzard Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Waiting and watching for this storm to head my way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanc2001 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 in north myrtle beach stuck in my driveway in car, getting pelted by quarter sized hail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 in north myrtle beach stuck in my driveway in car, getting pelted by quarter sized hail A couple of monster cells inland for the record that cell you are in is T warned....decent looking hook return right on the strand..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanc2001 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 A couple of monster cells inland for the record that cell you are in is T warned....decent looking hook return right on the strand..... I have Iphone video footage of potential wall cloud on my drive home from work, going to check to see if its worthy of posting in a sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downeastnc Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Gotta give a shout out to Jaydog on the the live stream on WMBF........that cell looked rough lots or reports of big hail and high winds right on the strand during rush hour yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckeyefan1 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0713 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0502 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2011 AREAS AFFECTED...NC...SC...ERN TN...WRN VA...SRN WV CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 269... VALID 102202Z - 102300Z THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 269 CONTINUES. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS PARTS OF WW269...PRIMARILY ALONG THE NC/SC BORDER. THIS ACTIVITY HAS EVOLVED WITHIN A MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS THAT IS MORE THAN ENOUGH SHEARED TO SUPPORT ORGANIZED ROTATING UPDRAFTS. ONE OR MORE MINOR DISTURBANCES MAY BE EMBEDDED WITHIN DEEP NWLY FLOW FROM THE OH VALLEY INTO THE CAROLINAS...HOWEVER WEAK WARM ADVECTION MAY PARTIALLY EXPLAIN THE ELONGATED ZONE OF CONVECTION THAT STRETCHES NW-SE ALONG THE FRONT SIDE OF RIDGE AXIS. GIVEN THE BROADER ZONE OF WARM ADVECTION AND MOIST/BUOYANT NWLY INFLOW...IT APPEARS NEW CONVECTION MAY EVOLVE UPSTREAM WELL INTO THE EVENING HOURS. ..DARROW.. 05/10/2011 ATTN...WFO...MHX...RAH...ILM...RNK...CHS...RLX...CAE...GSP... MRX...JKL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCBlizzard Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Well the Cleveland County storm was a major dud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burrel2 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I have Iphone video footage of potential wall cloud on my drive home from work, going to check to see if its worthy of posting in a sec That cell looks like it could be producing a water spout just off the coast now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanc2001 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 conway sc getting hammered with ping pong ball to baseball size hail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanc2001 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 video I shot on drive home from work dont make fun of my crappy iphone vid, I was driving about 70 on interstate, i know dumb. was shooting it out the drivers window. another storm about to come thru Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jshetley Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Sure hope this isnt a sign of how the rest of summer will be. If it is the western carolinas will be very hot and dry just like the Texas area. Cap doing it's job of keeping the storms from organizing and being able to last over about 1.5 hours. Only a very few spots see rain. With where the drought is and how I think the big ridge sets up, it's going to be 1980 again unless something changes fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil882 Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Now chasing the storm that just went over Greenville, SC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanc2001 Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 another video of the supercell over NMB earlier this evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaydog Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 video I shot on drive home from work dont make fun of my crappy iphone vid, I was driving about 70 on interstate, i know dumb. was shooting it out the drivers window. another storm about to come thru Wow...you were in a great position...right there under the hook. I was starting to have flashbacks of the 2001 tornado when that cell started crusing south along the sea breeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtg947h Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 I'm still a rank amateur and all that, but does the cell northeast of Charleston have a big hook on the western side? Sure looks like it from here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marion_NC_WX Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 I'm still a rank amateur and all that, but does the cell northeast of Charleston have a big hook on the western side? Sure looks like it from here... GRLevel 3 shows a small couplet in that particular storm...nothing alarming but there may be some rotation going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calculus1 Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Currently, most of the t-storm activity seems to be staying to the north of where it was predicted. Lots of activity now showing up on radar north of the Greensboro, NC, area along the NC/VA border. There's another heavy batch of storms in SE KY that does appear to be heading more toward NW NC. It probably won't make it to my area (if it holds together) until after I'm in bed. Maybe I'll be woken up by thunder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilkesboroDude Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marion_NC_WX Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Tri-Cities about to get slammed with strong winds...these type of features can sometimes survive the trip over the mountains, definitely worth watching... BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1006 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARTER COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE... JOHNSON COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE... SULLIVAN COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... CITY OF BRISTOL IN SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA... * UNTIL 1045 PM EDT * AT 1001 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEBANON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... ABINGDON...BRISTOL VA...BRISTOL TN...MOUNTAIN CITY... ELIZABETHTON...HAMPTON...HARR...DAMASCUS...KONNAROCK...SOUTH HOLSTON DAM...BLUFF CITY...SHADY VALLEY...LAUREL BLOOMERY... WATAUGA...SADIE...HUNTER...DOEVILLE...MILLIGAN COLLEGE...NEVA AND TRADE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD WIND DAMAGE ACROSS BUCHANAN COUNTY VIRGINIA. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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