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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 336, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2008, 2:28 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina; Franklin County, Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 52 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 23, 2008, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2008, 3:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Oconee County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 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 23, 2:00 PM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:00 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 23, 10:06 AM EDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1006 AM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 NCZ071-072-231445- CABARRUS-MECKLENBURG- 1006 AM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN MECKLENBURG AND SOUTHERN CABARRUS COUNTIES THROUGH 1045 AM EDT... AT 1006 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR UNC CHARLOTTE...MOVING EAST AT 9 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... LOWES MOTOR SPEEDWAY BY 1015 AM EDT. HARRISBURG BY 1025 AM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. BSH
Local storm report, Jul 23, 11:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1139 AM EDT WED JUL 23 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0755 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 E ENOCHVILLE 35.52N 80.65W
07/22/2008 ROWAN NC TRAINED SPOTTER
TREES DOWN ON ENOCHVILLE HWY EAST OF TOWN, LIMBS DOWN IN
TOWN REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT. HAIL EAST OF TOWN.
0755 PM HAIL 1 E ENOCHVILLE 35.52N 80.65W
07/22/2008 E0.75 INCH ROWAN NC TRAINED SPOTTER
DIME TO PENNY SIZE HAIL EAST OF TOWN, AND TREES DOWN.
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TBENTHALLSpecial weather statement, Jul 23, 2:24 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 224 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 GAZ018-SCZ001-004-231900- GREATER OCONEE-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-STEPHENS- 224 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN STEPHENS AND SOUTHERN OCONEE COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM EDT... AT 224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LONG CREEK...OR 10 MILES WEST OF WALHALLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 16 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... WESTMINSTER BY 255 PM EDT. 6 MILES NORTH OF LAKE HARTWELL BY 300 PM EDT. PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. BSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 59 min |
| Jul 22, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell, Rowan | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 10:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union | 59 min |
| Jul 23, 11:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 93 min |
| Jul 23, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jul 23, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 64 min |
| Jul 23, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 42 min |
| Jul 23, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 59 min |
| Jul 23, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 61 min |
| Jul 23, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 58 min |
| Jul 23, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 54 min |
| Jul 23, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 24 min |
| Jul 23, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert | 23 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.