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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 24, 2011Buncombe County, Haywood County, Madison County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2011, 6:49 AM EDT for Buncombe County, Haywood County, Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 24, 2011, 6:49 AM EDT (10:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2011, 7:30 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Buncombe County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:52 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 313 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: 1501 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.5

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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 24, 6:32 AM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 6:32 AM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 5:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:22 AM EDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:23 AM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:49 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 24, 2:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison, Swain	23 min
Jun 24, 5:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	37 min
Jun 24, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	46 min
Jun 24, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	45 min
Jun 24, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	40 min
Jun 24, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	40 min
Jun 24, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham, Swain	46 min
Jun 24, 3:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham, Swain	105 min
Jun 24, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	42 min
Jun 24, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	42 min
Jun 24, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	46 min
Jun 24, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	44 min
Jun 24, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	46 min
Jun 24, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	57 min
Jun 24, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	46 min
Jun 24, 2:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	46 min
Jun 24, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	47 min
Jun 24, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	43 min
Jun 24, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	65 min
Jun 24, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens	65 min
Jun 24, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	32 min
Jun 24, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	52 min
Jun 24, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens	65 min
Jun 24, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	49 min
Jun 24, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	42 min
Jun 24, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	45 min
Jun 24, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	47 min
Jun 24, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Hart	43 min
Jun 24, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	43 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.