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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 10, 1999Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1999, 4:16 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 10, 1999, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1999, 5:05 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Spartanburg County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 289 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1999-06-10Temperature 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1999-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
1673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 12:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMitchell31 min
Jun 10, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln49 min
Jun 10, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPickens30 min
Jun 10, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville36 min
Jun 10, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee50 min
Jun 10, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson, Greenville, Pickens48 min
Jun 10, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLaurens51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.