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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2008, 9:26 PM EDT for Franklin County, Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 8, 2008, 9:26 PM EDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2008, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, GA, Stephens County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1363 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 8, 7:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 7:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 332 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-091945- 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- 332 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND MOVE EAST ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. LOCALLY STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL CONTINUE...PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS...AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS WILL BE OVER PIEDMONT SECTIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING PENNY SIZED HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO RELAY ANY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:49 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 66 min |
| Jul 9, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Rutherford | 64 min |
| Jul 9, 7:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Union | 113 min |
| Jul 8, 10:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 59 min |
| Jul 9, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 28 min |
| Jul 9, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 45 min |
| Jul 9, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 67 min |
| Jul 9, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.