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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2010, 8:42 PM EDT for Habersham County, Rabun County, Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 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 15, 2010, 8:42 PM EDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2010, 9:42 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 799 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 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 Jun 15, 7:56 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 7:56 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 601 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>010-161015- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-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- 601 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE REGION AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT BEING LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION...STORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY...CREATING THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE MOST LIKELY IN URBAN AREAS...AND IN THE MOUNTAINS...WHERE STORMS MAY BECOME ANCHORED ALONG TERRAIN FEATURES. IN ADDITION TO THE FLOODING AND SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL ONCE AGAIN REACH THE MID AND UPPER 90S ACROSS MUCH OF THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS. THIS WILL COMBINE WITH A HUMID AIR MASS TO PRODUCE HEAT INDEX VALUES IN THE 100 TO 104 RANGE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. GAZ029-SCZ011>014-019-161015- ELBERT-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 601 AM EDT TUE JUN 15 2010 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE PIEDMONT AND PERSIST INTO THE EVENING HOURS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT BEING LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. IN ADDITION...STORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY...CREATING THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE MOST LIKELY IN URBAN AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. LANE
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 2:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Transylvania | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Rutherford | 67 min |
| Jun 16, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 41 min |
| Jun 16, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 60 min |
| Jun 16, 3:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Caldwell | 114 min |
| Jun 16, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 15, 8:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 55 min |
| Jun 15, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 66 min |
| Jun 15, 11:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 26 min |
| Jun 15, 11:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 11:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 12:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 32 min |
| Jun 16, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 59 min |
| Jun 16, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 53 min |
| Jun 16, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 43 min |
| Jun 16, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 50 min |
| Jun 16, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 39 min |
| Jun 15, 8:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham | 27 min |
| Jun 15, 9:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 23 min |
| Jun 16, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Franklin | 52 min |
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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.