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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 9, 2011Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2011, 5:11 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 9, 2011, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2011, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Laurens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 1773 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -68 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 Jul 9, 5:02 PM EDT, 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 5:02 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 3:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 1:03 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
103 PM EDT SAT JUL 09 2011

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

0836 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 E BOILING SPRINGS NC  35.25N 81.65W
07/08/2011                   CLEVELAND          NC   911 CALL CENTER

            THE ROOF OF A MASONIC LODGE WAS BLOWN OFF AND A FEW OTHER
            TREES BLOWN DOWN WITH AT LEAST TWO OF THOSE TREES IN THE
            ROADWAY. BASED ON CALLS AROUND SHELBY AND WACO...SEEMS
            THE WIND WAS MUCH LESS IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTY.

0905 PM     TSTM WND DMG     1 NE UNION              34.73N 81.61W
07/08/2011                   UNION              SC   911 CALL CENTER

            A TREE IN THE ROADWAY ON LAKESIDE DRIVE.

0912 PM     TSTM WND DMG     7 SSE UNION             34.63N 81.58W
07/08/2011                   UNION              SC   911 CALL CENTER

            A TREE IN THE ROADWAY ON BOB ADAMS ROAD.

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OUTLAW

Special weather statement, Jul 9, 3:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 4:47 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 5:11 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
Jul 8, 8:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	27 min
Jul 8, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	46 min
Jul 8, 8:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	35 min
Jul 8, 8:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Mecklenburg, Rowan	29 min
Jul 8, 8:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln	54 min
Jul 8, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Rowan	37 min
Jul 8, 9:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	51 min
Jul 8, 9:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Lincoln	118 min
Jul 8, 9:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mecklenburg	108 min
Jul 8, 9:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Mecklenburg, Rowan	41 min
Jul 8, 10:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rowan	103 min
Jul 8, 10:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union	40 min
Jul 8, 10:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Davie, Rowan	93 min
Jul 8, 8:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	29 min
Jul 8, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood, Laurens	29 min
Jul 8, 8:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, Greenwood, Laurens, Union, York	67 min
Jul 8, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	26 min
Jul 8, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	35 min
Jul 9, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	52 min
Jul 9, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	28 min
Jul 9, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	37 min
Jul 9, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	23 min
Jul 9, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	31 min
Jul 9, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	31 min
Jul 9, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	30 min
Jul 9, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	23 min
Jul 9, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	32 min
Jul 9, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	32 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.