Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 2012, 8:48 PM EDT for Chester County, York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 19 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 31, 2012, 8:48 PM EDT (00:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2012, 9:07 PM EDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chester County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 372 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
892
WUUS52 KGSP 010048
SVRGSP
SCC023-091-010145-
/O.NEW.KGSP.SV.W.0059.120401T0048Z-120401T0145Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
848 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN CHESTER COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
YORK COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 945 PM EDT
* AT 847 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR YORK...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
ROCK HILL.
CATAWBA.
FORT LAWN AND RICHBURG.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED
REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL TOLL FREE...1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.
&&
LAT...LON 3465 8089 3457 8087 3454 8088 3455 8100
3505 8135 3516 8117 3489 8087 3484 8086
3482 8089 3477 8086 3474 8087 3470 8085
TIME...MOT...LOC 0048Z 323DEG 21KT 3503 8119
$$
RB1 follow-up statement
774
WWUS52 KGSP 010107
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
907 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
SCC023-091-010117-
/O.CAN.KGSP.SV.W.0059.000000T0000Z-120401T0145Z/
CHESTER SC-YORK SC-
907 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR YORK AND EASTERN CHESTER
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LEVELS.
LAT...LON 3465 8089 3457 8087 3454 8088 3455 8100
3505 8135 3516 8117 3489 8087 3484 8086
3482 8089 3477 8086 3474 8087 3470 8085
TIME...MOT...LOC 0107Z 323DEG 21KT 3494 8111
$$
RBWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 31, 8:00 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 8:00 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 800 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012 .SYNOPSIS... A SERIES OF UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CAROLINAS...REACHING THE COAST ON SUNDAY. DRIER AIR WILL THEN MOVE IN AND REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK WHEN ANOTHER NORTHERN GULF WEATHER DISTURBANCE ENTERS THE PICTURE. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 530 PM...PLENTY OF INSTBY ACRS THE CWFA...AND SCATTERED CONVECTION DEVELOPING ATTM. WITH STEEP MID LVL LAPSE RATES AND DCAPE OVER 1000 J/KG ACRS THE PIEDMONT...A FEW SVR STORMS POSSIBLE INTO EARLY EVENING. UPDATED THE POPS TO RELFECT RADAR TRENDS. OVERALL...HIGH-RES MODELS SEEM TO FAVOR THE UPSTATE FOR CONTINUED CONVECTION TILL ABOUT MIDNIGHT...WHILE ISOLD CONVECTION WANES ACRS THE REST OF THE AREA AFTER SUNSET. OTHERWISE...NO OTHER CHANGES WITH THIS UPDATE. AT 230 PM EDT SATURDAY...A MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE WILL APPROACH FORM THE NW THIS AFTERNOON...DRIVING A COLD FRONT ACROSS OUR AREA. THIS FRONT AND INCREASING INSTABILITY AHEAD OF TI WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...EVEN IN A NW FLOW WITH DRYING BELOW 850 MB IN THE WAKE OF AN EXITING SYSTEM. NAM CAPE EXCEEDS 1000 J/KG IN THE UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY...AND UP TO 1000 J/KG APPEARS IN THE NC MOUNTAINS AND PIEDMONT. ENOUGH VERTICAL SPEED SHEAR IS PRESENT TO SUPPORT ORGANIZED CONVECTION...AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND. THE FRONT EXITS OUR AREA THIS EVENING. MODEL GUIDANCE SUPPORTS FOG BY DAYBREAK ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA...BUT NO MORE THAN PATCHY DENSE FOG IS SUPPORTED AT THIS TIME. MINIMUM TEMPERATURES WILL BE AROUND 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL AS AN UPPER TROUGH AXIS PROGRESSES AWAY FROM OUR AREA...LEADING TO RISING HEIGHTS ALOFT. ON SUNDAY A WEAK UPPER IMPULSE MOVES SOUTHEAST ACROSS OUR AREA THROUGH THE DEPARTING TROUGH...AN MODEL TIME HEIGHTS SHOWS SOME BRIEF MOISTURE AT 850 MB WITH THIS FEATURE...WHILE MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW CAPE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED J/KG. MODEL GUIDANCE IS NOT VERY SUPPORTIVE OF PRECIPITATION AT THIS TIME...WITH THE MAV CARRYING SLIGHT CHANCE POPS...AND THE NAM ONLY SINGLE DIGITS. MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE WILL BE NEAR MID MAY NORMALS. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... AS OF 225 PM SATURDAY...THIS PERIOD BEGINS WITH NW FLOW ON THE WESTERN PERIPHERY OF A TROUGH AND EASTERN PORTION OF A MISS VALLEY RIDGE. MODELS SHOW A SHORTWAVE MOVING SE FROM GREAT LAKES SUNDAY AND OFF THE JERSEY COAST EARLY MONDAY. DISSIPATING ENERGY WILL LEAVE SOME CLOUDINESS OVER NC MOUNTAINS MONDAY. THE DOWNSLOPE FLOW WILL RESULT IN RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURES FOR CLT AND GSP IF THE FORECAST HOLDS. MOUNTAIN HIGH TEMPS SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES BELOW THE RECORD AT AVL OF 87 DEGREES...BUT HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S WOULD BREAK THE RECORD OF 84 AT GSP AND THE 86 RECORD AT CLT. THE RIDGE WILL BE MORE CENTERED OVER OUR REGION ON TUESDAY...BUT NO LONGER A WARMING DOWNSLOPE FACTOR. HIGHS ON TUESDAY SHOULD CERTAINLY BE A FEW DEGREES BELOW RECORDS OF 87 AT GSP AND 90 AT CLT. CLOUDINESS WILL BE INCREASING ON TUESDAY AS WE WILL HAVE A FRONT MOVING SOUTH FROM THE OHIO VALLEY AND A FRONT MOVING EAST ACROSS THE GULF STATES AHEAD OF THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW. GFS HAS CAPES IN THE 1500 TO 1600 RANGE LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS NE GA AND UPSTATE AND NOSING INTO THE SHELBY AND GASTON AREA OF NC. CONVECTION WILL BE SCATTERED LATE TUESDAY. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... AS OF 2 PM SATURDAY...THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TO TREND SLOWER ON THE PROGRESS OF THE CUT OFF UPPER LOW MOVING IN FROM THE WEST. THE GFS AND ECMWF ARE IN BETTER AGREEMENT AS OPPOSED TO FRIDAY WHEN THOSE WERE EXTREMELY DIFFERENT BY DAY 7. AT 00Z WED...BOTH HAVE THE LOW GENERALLY OVER THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THE GFS HAS IT MOVING FARTHER NORTH AND OPENING IT UP BY 00Z FRIDAY AS THE WAVE MOVES SE TOWARD OUR REGION FROM KENTUCKY. THE ECMWF MAINTAINS A CUT OFF LOW FROM OKLAHOMA TO REACH SAVANNAH GA AT 06Z SATURDAY. THERE ARE VARIOUS SMALL SCALE FEATURES THAT MOVE THROUGH THE FLOW OUT AHEAD OF THIS MAIN FEATURE WHICH AFFECTS OUR WEATHER IN MID TO LATE WEEK. HPC WENT CLOSER WITH THE GFS SOLUTION AND THAT ONE HAS MORE OF A DOMINANT SURFACE HIGH CENTERED EASTERN GREAT LAKES / PA FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. THE ECMWF HAS THE CUT OFF LOW BECOMING ALMOST STATIONARY FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY NEAR SAVANNAH. THIS BEING DISCOUNTED...WE SHOULD HAVE DRYING CONDITIONS NEXT WEEKEND...UNTIL THE NEXT SYSTEM REACHES OUR AREA FROM THE WEST. THAT NEXT SYSTEM APPEARS DELAYED UNTIL SOMETIME THE FOLLOWING WEEK. GOING WITH BEST CONVECTION FROM LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. INSTABILITY NOT OVERLY IMPRESSIVE THROUGH THE PERIOD AND SHEAR VALUES LESS THAN PREVIOUS RUNS. TEMPERATURES ABOVE NORMAL MID WEEK AND CLOSE TO NORMAL BY WEEKEND. && .AVIATION /00Z SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... AT KCLT...A FEW ISOLD SHRA/TSRA IN THE AREA...BUT NOT LIKELY TO MAKE DIRECT IMPACT ON THE TERMINAL BEFORE DIMINISHING EARLY THIS EVENING. THE TDWR DOES SHOW SOME SUBTLE OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES DRIFTING SWD. SO THINK THE WIND SHUD SHIFT TO PREDOMINATELY N...BUT REMAIN LIGHT. LATER TONIGHT...MAINLY JUST SOME CIRRUS WITH LGT WINDS. GUIDANCE GENERALLY TRENDING MORE OPTIMISTIC...WITH PERHAPS SOME PATCHY FOG IN THE AREA. SO ONLY GOING MVFR BR AROUND DAYBREAK. VFR RETURNS BY MID SUNDAY MORNING. WINDS VEER FROM N/NE TO S AROUND MIDDAY SUNDAY. ELSEWHERE...A CLUSTER OF TSRA HAVE SLOWLY BEEN DRIFTING SOUTH OF KGMU/KGSP...AND EXPECTED TO REMAIN EAST OF KAND. DEBRIS CLOUDINESS AND LIGHT WINDS SHIFTING N/NE THIS EVENING. FAIRLY DECENT AMOUNT OF RAIN FELL AT KGMU AND KGSP. SO THERE IS SOME FOG POTENTIAL AT THOSE SITES. HOWEVER...A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO PUSH THRU AND USHER IN DRIER AIR. WITH UNCERTAINTY...HAVE ONLY MVFR BR AT KAND/KHKY PER PREVIOUS TAF...AND AT KGMU/KGSP. VFR CONDITIONS WITH SWLY WINDS EXPECTED SUNDAY. OUTLOOK...DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL SPREAD SHRA AND TSTMS INTO THE REGION TUE AND WED. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THE SYSTEM WILL HAVE PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND RESTRICTIVE CIGS AND VSBYS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. AN EXPERIMENTAL AVIATION FORECAST CONSISTENCY TABLE SHOWING THE PERCENTAGE OF GUIDANCE MEMBERS AGREEING WITH THE SCHEDULED ISSUANCE CATEGORY IS AVAILABLE AT FOLLOWING LINK (USE LOWER CASE)... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/GSP/AVIATION/TABLES.HTM && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...PAT NEAR TERM...ARK/JAT SHORT TERM...DEO LONG TERM...DEO AVIATION...ARK
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 6:02 AM EDT, 14 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 602 AM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-011015- 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- 602 AM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. AN UPPER LOW WILL CROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...TRIGGERING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THE BEST CHANCE OF A SEVERE STORM WILL BE OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...AS WELL AS ACROSS THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 31, 8:29 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
829 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 PM HAIL 4 NE DUE WEST 34.37N 82.35W
03/31/2012 E0.88 INCH ABBEVILLE SC PUBLIC
ROBINSON STREET IN DONALDS.
&&
CSHLocal storm report, Mar 31, 8:35 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
835 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0821 PM HAIL HODGES 34.29N 82.25W
03/31/2012 E0.75 INCH GREENWOOD SC PUBLIC
&&
CSHLocal storm report, Mar 31, 8:37 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
837 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0748 PM HAIL 2 NE HONEA PATH 34.47N 82.37W
03/31/2012 E0.75 INCH ANDERSON SC PUBLIC
&&
CSHLocal storm report, Mar 31, 8:39 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
839 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0823 PM HAIL NINETY SIX 34.17N 82.02W
03/31/2012 E1.00 INCH GREENWOOD SC PUBLIC
&&
CSHSpecial weather statement, Mar 31, 8:45 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
845 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
SCZ009-014-010130-
CHESTER-YORK-
845 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN CHESTER AND YORK
COUNTIES THROUGH 930 PM EDT...
AT 843 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF CLOVER...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF
YORK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
YORK...
MCCONNELLS...
ROCK HILL...
MOTHBALL SIZE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3471 8111 3510 8141 3512 8140 3517 8133
3516 8119 3486 8087
RBLocal storm report, Mar 31, 8:48 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
848 PM EDT SAT MAR 31 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0615 PM HAIL 3 WSW GREENVILLE 34.82N 82.42W
03/31/2012 E0.75 INCH GREENVILLE SC PUBLIC
WEBB STREET
&&
CSHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 8:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 64 min |
| Mar 31, 8:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 45 min |
| Apr 1, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 42 min |
| Apr 1, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 29 min |
| Apr 1, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 31 min |
| Apr 1, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 47 min |
| Apr 1, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 26 min |
| Apr 1, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens, Union | 49 min |
| Apr 1, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.