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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 16, 2010Cherokee County, York County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 2010, 4:25 PM EDT for Cherokee County, York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 65 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 16, 2010, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2010, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cherokee County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 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 May 16, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 16, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 16, 3:40 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 16, 2:25 PM EDT, 2 hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
225 PM EDT SUN MAY 16 2010

NCZ056-069-161915-
CATAWBA-LINCOLN-
225 PM EDT SUN MAY 16 2010

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL LINCOLN AND EASTERN
CATAWBA COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM EDT...

AT 222 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LINCOLNTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TERRELL...
  NEWTON...MAIDEN...CLAREMONT...CATAWBA...LINCOLNTON...DENVER AND
  BOGER CITY.

VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3574 8107 3571 8105 3571 8102 3567 8097
      3563 8093 3559 8094 3540 8121 3541 8126
      3551 8139 3578 8113

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Special weather statement, May 16, 3:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 3:45 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 3:46 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 3:58 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 16, 4:02 PM EDT, 23 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
May 15, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Iredell	42 min
May 15, 9:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	52 min
May 15, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	46 min
May 15, 10:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	51 min
May 15, 11:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	44 min
May 16, 12:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	47 min
May 16, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	32 min
May 16, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	34 min
May 16, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	29 min
May 16, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	38 min
May 16, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	50 min
May 16, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan	67 min
May 16, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Iredell	65 min
May 16, 3:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 21 more	32 hr
May 16, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	45 min
May 16, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	44 min
May 16, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	47 min
May 16, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	43 min
May 16, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	42 min
May 16, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	47 min
May 16, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	48 min
May 16, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	59 min
May 16, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	42 min
May 16, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland	53 min
May 16, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	44 min
May 16, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	52 min
May 16, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell	39 min
May 16, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	38 min
May 16, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	47 min
May 16, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Pickens	66 min
May 16, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	51 min
May 16, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	52 min
May 16, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	39 min
May 16, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	40 min
May 16, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	52 min
May 16, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	48 min
May 16, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	44 min
May 16, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Union, York	55 min
May 15, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham, Stephens	41 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.