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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 11, 2011Oconee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2011, 3:06 AM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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, 3:06 AM EDT (07:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2011, 3:30 AM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Oconee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 675 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2289 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 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 Jun 11, 2:42 AM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:42 AM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 2:04 AM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 10:51 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 10, 11:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 12:12 AM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 12:35 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:06 AM 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
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, 12:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	40 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

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South 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.