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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 187, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2008, 2:52 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 53 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 23, 2008, 2:52 PM EDT (18:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2008, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 22, 7:33 PM EDT, 19 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 7:33 PM EDT, 19 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 733 PM EDT SUN JUN 22 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK AREA OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH MONDAY. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST MONDAY AFTERNOON AND MOVE ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE OVER THE SOUTHERN MID ATLANTIC STATES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF THE WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH MONDAY/... WEAK SHORT WAVE TROUGH ALOFT CONTRIBUTING TO CURRENT CONVECTIVE STORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EASTWARD THIS EVENING AND EXIT CWA AROUND 00Z. LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING AND WEAK ANTICYCLONIC VORTICITY ADVECTION BEHIND TROUGH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO SLOWLY DIMINISHING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DURING NIGHTTIME PERIOD. STRONGER SHORT WAVE TROUGH MOVING THROUGH GREAT LAKES TROUGH WILL SWING TOWARD SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS DURING MONDAY REACHING THE WESTERN PORTION OF CWA BY THE END OF THE DAY. FAIRLY STEEP LAPSE RATES ACCOMPANY APPROACH OF SHORT WAVE... BUT MOISTURE APPEARS SOMEWHAT LIMITED AT THIS TIME. NONETHELESS... EXPECT CONVECTIVE STORMS TO DEVELOP BUT WILL KEEP MONDAY AFTERNOON POPS IN CHANCE CATEGORY FOR THE TIME BEING. && .SHORT TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... AS OF 225 PM SUNDAY...CHANCES FOR CONVECTION WILL LINGER INTO MONDAY EVENING...MAINLY ALONG/EAST OF THE I-77 CORRIDOR...ALTHOUGH SLIGHT CHANCES WILL BE RETAINED ACROSS MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE AREA THROUGH MIDNIGHT. BY TUESDAY...THE REGION WILL BE UPSTREAM OF THE LONG WAVE TROUGH AXIS...WITH GENERAL SUBSIDENCE AND DEEP LAYER DRYING EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST. THIS SHOULD RESULT IN A RARE SUMMER DAY ABSENT OF EVEN ISOLATED CONVECTION. THE DRY WEATHER WILL LIKELY CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY...AS THE UPPER FLOW REMAINS WEAKLY ANTICYCLONIC...AND MOISTURE GENERALLY REMAINS CONFINED TO LOCATIONS NEAR THE COAST. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 240 PM SUNDAY...NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE OVERALL PATTERN IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE END OF NEXT WEEK. GENERAL LOW AMPLITUDE TROUGHINESS WILL PERSIST NEAR THE EAST COAST THROUGH THE PERIOD... WITH W/NW UPPER FLOW EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTHEAST AND MID-ATLANTIC. THIS WILL RESULT IN SOMEWHAT TYPICAL EARLY SUMMER WEATHER...WITH MAX TEMPS AROUND 90 IN THE PIEDMONT AND ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED DIURNAL CONVECTION...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MTNS. && .AVIATION /00Z MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... TSTM ACTIVITY LOOKS LIKE IT WILL STILL FLIRT WITH TERMINAL LOCATIONS THRU ABOUT 01 OR 02 UTC BEFORE DISSIPATING. OTHERWISE...EXPECT JUST DIMINISHING DEBRIS CLOUDS INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS WITH VSBY RESTRICTIONS DEVELOPING SIMILAR TO WHAT OCCURRED EARLIER THIS MORNING. WILL PLAN ON ROUGHLY A PERSISTENCE FCST FOR THE LATE NIGHT/EARLY MORNING FOG THREAT. ANY VSBYS SHOULD IMPROVE QUICKLY... WITHIN A HOUR OR TWO AFTER SUNRISE. BOTH THE 18 UTC NAM/GFS DEPICT A VIGOROUS S/WV APPROACHING DURING THE AFTERNOON WHICH IN THEORY COULD PROVIDE A LARGER SCALE LIFT MECHANISM FOR MORE TSTMS. OUTLOOK...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY LINGER ACROSS THE REGION INTO MONDAY EVENING. GRADUAL DRYING AND VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FROM THE WEST. MOISTURE WILL SLOWLY RETURN THROUGH LATE WEEK PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...LGL NEAR TERM...LGL SHORT TERM...JDL LONG TERM...JDL AVIATION...CSH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 3:26 PM EDT, 23 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 9:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Davie, Gaston, Iredell and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell, Rowan | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 41 min |
| Jun 22, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg, Union | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 9:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, Union, York | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.