Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2010, 6:09 PM EDT for Chester County, Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 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
- May 29, 2010, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2010, 6:36 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chester County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 322 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
- 490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Transylvania | 61 min |
| May 29, 1:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 39 min |
| May 28, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 59 min |
| May 28, 8:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 47 min |
| May 28, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 67 min |
| May 28, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, Union | 43 min |
| May 28, 10:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham, Rabun, Stephens | 50 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.