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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 279, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2008, 2:46 PM EDT for Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 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 9, 2008, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2008, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 978 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 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 9, 1:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 1:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 150 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-101800- 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- 150 PM EDT WED JUL 9 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 SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY WILL PRODUCE HAIL TO SIZE OF PENNIES AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF THEM SEVERE...WILL DEVELOP AGAIN THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 155 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 NCZ035-036-056-501-502-504-091900- ALEXANDER-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-CATAWBA-GREATER BURKE-GREATER CALDWELL-IREDELL- 155 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT ALEXANDER...CALDWELL...NORTHERN BURKE...NORTHWESTERN CATAWBA AND WESTERN IREDELL COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT... AT 148 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES WEST OF KINGS CREEK TO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORGANTON...MOVING EAST AT 16 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... KINGS CREEK BY 200 PM EDT. MORGANTON BY 205 PM EDT. HUDSON BY 220 PM EDT. LAKE RHODHISS BY 230 PM EDT. VALDESE BY 235 PM EDT. RUTHERFORD COLLEGE BY 240 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. KRENTZ
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:23 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 223 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 NCZ053-065-507>510-091930- BUNCOMBE-EASTERN POLK-GREATER RUTHERFORD-HENDERSON-POLK MOUNTAINS-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS- 223 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CENTRAL RUTHERFORD...NORTHERN HENDERSON...NORTHWESTERN POLK AND SOUTHERN BUNCOMBE COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM EDT... AT 218 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF BAT CAVE TO 5 MILES WEST OF AVERY CREEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... FLETCHER BY 240 PM EDT. BAT CAVE BY 250 PM EDT. CHIMNEY ROCK BY 300 PM EDT. LAKE ADGER BY 330 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. KRENTZ
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:30 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 230 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 NCZ501-502-091930- CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL- 230 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL RAINFALL ACROSS CALDWELL COUNTY THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS... AT 230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AT RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THE VICINITY OF PATTERSON THROUGH 4 PM. THIS WILL CREATE RAPID RISES ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS...INCLUDING BUFFALO CREEK AND THE YADKIN RIVER. HG
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:36 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 236 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 SCZ001-002-005-091930- GREATER PICKENS-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS- 236 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL PICKENS AND NORTHEASTERN OCONEE COUNTIES THROUGH 330 PM EDT... AT 230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF NINE TIMES...OR 11 MILES WEST OF PICKENS...MOVING EAST AT 11 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... NINE TIMES BY 245 PM EDT. PICKENS BY 325 PM EDT. 6 MILES NORTH OF LIBERTY BY 330 PM EDT. SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. KRENTZ
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, 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 |
| Jul 8, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin, Stephens | 64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.