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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2011, 12:35 AM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 11, 2011, 12:35 AM EDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2011, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 1330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Jun 10, 10:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 10:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 229 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2011 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-111830- 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- 229 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 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 THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORMS WILL ALSO BE FAIRLY SLOW MOVING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL RESULT...WITH ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING A POSSIBILITY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AGAIN SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH AT LEAST A FEW OF THE STORMS BECOMING SEVERE. SLOW STORM MOTIONS AND A MOIST AIR MASS WILL FAVOR A FEW AREAS OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. FLASH FLOODING...DAMAGING WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE.
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 12:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 45 min |
| Jun 11, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 61 min |
| Jun 11, 3:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba | 57 min |
| Jun 11, 6:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 67 min |
| Jun 11, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Swain | 28 min |
| Jun 11, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 12:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 3:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 24 min |
| Jun 11, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 66 min |
| Jun 11, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 59 min |
| Jun 11, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin | 68 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.