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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 11, 2011Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at May 11, 2011, 10:13 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2011, 10:13 PM EDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2011, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1003 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 11, 9:56 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 9:56 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 2:58 PM EDT, 7 hours 15 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
258 PM EDT WED MAY 11 2011

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-121900-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-
IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-
ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-
HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-
CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-GREATER CALDWELL-BURKE MOUNTAINS-GREATER BURKE-
MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MCDOWELL-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-
GREATER RUTHERFORD-POLK MOUNTAINS-EASTERN POLK-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-
PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-
GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-
ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
258 PM EDT WED MAY 11 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER
THE BLUE RIDGE AND FOOTHILLS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THE STORMS ARE
THEN EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH...ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT
INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SOME STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...
PRODUCING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 11, 7:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
750 PM EDT WED MAY 11 2011

NCZ036-037-057-120030-
DAVIE-IREDELL-ROWAN-
750 PM EDT WED MAY 11 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN IREDELL...
NORTHWESTERN ROWAN AND WESTERN DAVIE COUNTIES THROUGH 830 PM EDT...

AT 747 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHEFFIELD...OR 10 MILES
SOUTH OF YADKINVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN IREDELL...NORTHWESTERN ROWAN AND WESTERN DAVIE
COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

HARMONY AND CLEVELAND...

SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3576 8046 3570 8081 3605 8082 3605 8059

MOORE

Local storm report, May 11, 7:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
751 PM EDT WED MAY 11 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0720 PM     HAIL             2 NW TURNERVILLE        34.71N 83.45W
05/11/2011  E1.00 INCH       HABERSHAM          GA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SPOTTER CALLED BACK AND AFTER A QUICK SURVEY OF THE YARD
            FOUND THAT MANY OF THE HAIL STONES WERE 1 INCH IN
            DIAMETER.

&&

BSH

Local storm report, May 11, 8:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
819 PM EDT WED MAY 11 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0709 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LAKEMONT                34.78N 83.42W
05/11/2011                   RABUN              GA   COUNTY OFFICIAL

            RABUN COUNTY COMMS REPORTS ONE TREE DOWN AND SEVERAL
            POWERLINES DOWN IN LAKEMONT.

&&

BSH

Special weather statement, May 11, 8:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
834 PM EDT WED MAY 11 2011

NCZ068-508-120115-
CLEVELAND-GREATER RUTHERFORD-
834 PM EDT WED MAY 11 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN RUTHERFORD AND WESTERN
CLEVELAND COUNTIES THROUGH 915 PM EDT...

AT 829 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF SUNSHINE...OR 15 MILES
NORTHEAST OF RUTHERFORDTON...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

PEOPLE IN EASTERN RUTHERFORD AND WESTERN CLEVELAND COUNTIES...
INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

POLKVILLE AND ELLENBORO...

SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3556 8164 3524 8149 3518 8160 3519 8186
      3554 8187 3559 8176

MOORE

Special weather statement, May 11, 10:08 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 11, 10:13 PM EDT, 0 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 11, 8:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	41 min
May 11, 9:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	37 min
May 11, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	52 min
May 12, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	45 min
May 12, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	64 min
May 12, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	42 min
May 12, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	56 min
May 12, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell, Rutherford	39 min
May 12, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	44 min
May 12, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	43 min
May 12, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	52 min
May 12, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	43 min
May 12, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	50 min
May 12, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	56 min
May 12, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	48 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.