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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

January 5, 2007York County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 5, 2007, 4:16 PM EST for York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 14 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2007, 4:16 PM EST (21:16 UTC)
Expired: Jan 5, 2007, 4:30 PM EST
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County York County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 5, 12:41 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 052116
TORGSP
SCC091-052200-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0004.070105T2116Z-070105T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
416 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN YORK COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 500 PM EST

* AT 412 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF
  CLOVER...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF YORK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CLOVER AROUND 420 PM EST...

THIS TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED BECAUSE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
THERE IS HIGH POTENTIAL FOR THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF A BRIEF...
ISOLATED TORNADO WITHIN THE WARNED AREA. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES
SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER. OTHERWISE...GO TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR PLACE OF BUSINESS.

TO REPORT TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR FLOODING...
THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...
1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.

LAT...LON 3513 8138 3506 8137 3504 8120 3510 8104
      3515 8105 3516 8119

$$
LANE

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS52 KGSP 052130
SVSGSP

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
428 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007

SCC091-052138-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-070105T2200Z/
YORK SC-
428 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN YORK COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF 
THE COUNTY. HOWEVER...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND 
GUSTS OF UP TO 50 MPH WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT LOCATIONS FROM LAKE 
WYLIE...TO ROCK HILL...TO CATAWBA THROUGH 5 PM. 

LAT...LON 3513 8138 3506 8137 3504 8120 3510 8104
      3515 8105 3516 8119

$$
LANE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 12:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	68 min
Jan 5, 2:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood	57 min
Jan 5, 2:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	45 min
Jan 5, 2:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg	66 min
Jan 5, 2:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenville	32 min
Jan 5, 3:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	39 min
Jan 5, 3:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	40 min
Jan 5, 3:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	48 min

Nearby

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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.