Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2010, 2:04 PM EDT for Jackson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina; Greenville County, Oconee County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 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 31, 2010, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2010, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jackson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1397 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 64 min |
| Jul 31, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Macon, Swain | 62 min |
| Jul 31, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 34 min |
| Jul 31, 7:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 45 min |
| Jul 31, 8:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 8:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenwood | 63 min |
| Jul 31, 9:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 24 min |
| Jul 31, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 26 min |
| Jul 31, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 37 min |
| Jul 31, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham | 36 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.