Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2011, 3:59 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 61 min. 8 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 2011, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2011, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 4:03 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | Mauldin, SC | MARBLE SIZED HAIL |
| Mar 19, 4:05 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Greenville, SC | PENNY HAIL COVERED GROUND AND ROAD |
| Mar 19, 4:07 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 6 Sse Greenville, SC | GANTT FIRE DEPARTMENT STATION 2 EXPERIENCED HAIL COVERING THE GROUND WITH HAIL AS LARGE AS A QUARTER WHICH LASTED AT LEAST 5 MINUTES. HAD STRONG WIND GUSTS AS WELL BUT ONLY SMALL BRANCHES WERE BROKEN. |
| Mar 19, 4:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Piedmont, SC | LARGE BRANCHES BROKEN |
| Mar 19, 4:15 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | 3 Sw Greenville, SC | MARBLE SIZED HAIL COVERING THE GROUND AT PLEASANTBURG AND MAULDIN ROAD |
| Mar 19, 4:20 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | 3 Sw Mauldin, SC | |
| Mar 19, 4:30 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Simpsonville, SC | |
| Mar 19, 4:45 PM EDT | HAIL 0.5 | Simpsonville, SC | HAIL WAS 1 INCH DEEP ON THE GROUND |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
766
WUUS52 KGSP 191959
SVRGSP
SCC007-045-059-077-192100-
/O.NEW.KGSP.SV.W.0013.110319T1959Z-110319T2100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
359 PM EDT SAT MAR 19 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
NORTHWESTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
EAST CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
SOUTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 500 PM EDT
* AT 354 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHOPS AT GREENRIDGE AND PELHAM ROAD AT I-85...
DONALDSON CENTER AND MAULDIN...
FIVE FORKS...
SIMPSONVILLE...
FORK SHOALS AND FOUNTAIN INN...
PRINCETON...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND DOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
TO REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR FLOODING...THROUGH OUR
AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...
1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.
&&
LAT...LON 3440 8224 3486 8265 3494 8235 3452 8192
3436 8219
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 323DEG 21KT 3482 8241
$$
JPT2 follow-up statements
617
WWUS52 KGSP 192028
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
428 PM EDT SAT MAR 19 2011
SCC007-045-059-077-192100-
/O.CON.KGSP.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-110319T2100Z/
ANDERSON SC-LAURENS SC-PICKENS SC-GREENVILLE SC-
428 PM EDT SAT MAR 19 2011
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHERN GREENVILLE...EAST CENTRAL PICKENS...NORTHWESTERN LAURENS
AND NORTHEASTERN ANDERSON COUNTIES...
AT 424 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR SIMPSONVILLE...OR 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN
GREENVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
FOUNTAIN INN...FORK SHOALS...PRINCETON...GRAY COURT...HICKORY
TAVERN...BOYD MILL POND...ORA AND LAURENS
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND
DOORS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
&&
LAT...LON 3440 8224 3486 8265 3494 8235 3452 8192
3436 8219
TIME...MOT...LOC 2028Z 323DEG 21KT 3468 8229
$$
JPT583
WWUS52 KGSP 192053
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
453 PM EDT SAT MAR 19 2011
SCC007-045-059-077-192103-
/O.EXP.KGSP.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-110319T2100Z/
ANDERSON SC-LAURENS SC-PICKENS SC-GREENVILLE SC-
453 PM EDT SAT MAR 19 2011
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN GREENVILLE...EAST
CENTRAL PICKENS...NORTHWESTERN LAURENS AND NORTHEASTERN ANDERSON
COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 500 PM EDT...
LAT...LON 3440 8224 3486 8265 3494 8235 3452 8192
3436 8219
TIME...MOT...LOC 2053Z 323DEG 21KT 3456 8218
$$
JPTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 54 min |
| Mar 19, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 40 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.