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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 16, 2010Henderson County, Polk County, Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2010, 2:53 PM EDT for Henderson County, Polk County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 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 16, 2010, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2010, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Henderson County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 305 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, 18 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 7:56 PM EDT, 18 hours 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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, 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, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham, Rabun, Stephens	60 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2010 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.