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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 25, 2010Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2010, 5:34 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 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 25, 2010, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2010, 6:12 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Laurens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 256 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: 885 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 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 25, 2:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 3:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 4:53 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 5:05 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 5:17 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 5:21 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 5:23 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 5:29 PM EDT, 5 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 24, 8:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	48 min
Jun 24, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	49 min
Jun 24, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell, Rowan	44 min
Jun 24, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln	55 min
Jun 24, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	32 min
Jun 24, 9:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	30 min
Jun 24, 9:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	49 min
Jun 24, 9:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	28 min
Jun 25, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	59 min
Jun 25, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon	66 min
Jun 25, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	49 min
Jun 25, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	59 min
Jun 25, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk	67 min
Jun 25, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	45 min
Jun 25, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	44 min
Jun 25, 1:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	66 min
Jun 25, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	57 min
Jun 25, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	53 min
Jun 25, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	45 min
Jun 25, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Pickens	75 min
Jun 25, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Pickens	59 min
Jun 25, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson	58 min
Jun 25, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	42 min
Jun 25, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Laurens	79 min
Jun 25, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	64 min
Jun 25, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, York	49 min
Jun 25, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	48 min
Jun 25, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	49 min
Jun 25, 1:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham	37 min
Jun 25, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.