Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT for Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 19, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Greenwood County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
929
WFUS52 KGSP 192230
TORGSP
SCC047-192300-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0007.110319T2230Z-110319T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
630 PM EDT SAT MAR 19 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL GREENWOOD COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 624 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF
DYSON...OR 12 MILES EAST OF GREENWOOD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DYSON...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER.
OTHERWISE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME
OR PLACE OF BUSINESS. MAKE SURE THERE ARE AS MANY WALLS AND FLOORS
BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS POSSIBLE.
TO REPORT TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR FLOODING...
THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...
1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.
&&
LAT...LON 3421 8206 3424 8200 3420 8193 3413 8186
3401 8196 3401 8197
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 329DEG 20KT 3419 8192
$$
JPT1 follow-up statement
098
WWUS52 KGSP 192252
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
652 PM EDT SAT MAR 19 2011
SCC047-192302-
/O.EXP.KGSP.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-110319T2300Z/
GREENWOOD SC-
652 PM EDT SAT MAR 19 2011
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL GREENWOOD COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 700 PM EDT...
LAT...LON 3421 8206 3424 8200 3420 8193 3413 8186
3401 8196 3401 8197
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 329DEG 20KT 3409 8184
$$
JPTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 50 min |
| Mar 19, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 42 min |
| Mar 19, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 38 min |
| Mar 19, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 54 min |
| Mar 19, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 66 min |
| Mar 19, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Pickens | 61 min |
| Mar 19, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood, Laurens | 48 min |
| Mar 19, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 40 min |
Nearby
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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.