Alert archive / South Carolina / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jan 21, 2012, 12:08 PM EST for Laurens County, Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 37 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
- Jan 21, 2012, 12:08 PM EST (17:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2012, 12:45 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Laurens County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 389 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
723
WWUS82 KGSP 211708
SPSGSP
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1208 PM EST SAT JAN 21 2012
SCZ007>009-012>014-211745-
CHEROKEE-CHESTER-LAURENS-SPARTANBURG-UNION-YORK-
1208 PM EST SAT JAN 21 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHERN LAURENS...NORTHWESTERN
CHESTER...SOUTHEASTERN SPARTANBURG...SOUTHERN CHEROKEE...SOUTHWESTERN
YORK AND UNION COUNTIES THROUGH 1245 PM EST...
AT 1205 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
COWPENS TO HICKORY TAVERN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
GRAY COURT...
PACOLET...
LAURENS...
JONESVILLE...
CROSS KEYS...
UNION...
PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3452 8225 3502 8189 3489 8130 3449 8157
3452 8162 3450 8167 3438 8177
$$
RBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 7:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Haywood, Madison, Swain | 61 min |
| Jan 21, 8:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison, Yancey | 40 min |
| Jan 21, 8:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson, Macon | 48 min |
| Jan 21, 9:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, McDowell | 45 min |
| Jan 21, 9:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Transylvania | 37 min |
| Jan 21, 9:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania | 63 min |
| Jan 21, 9:57 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Madison | 4 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:25 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 50 min |
| Jan 21, 10:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 36 min |
| Jan 21, 11:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 31 min |
| Jan 21, 11:16 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 44 min |
| Jan 21, 12:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 25 min |
| Jan 21, 12:25 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 35 min |
| Jan 21, 12:36 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, Union, York | 24 min |
| Jan 21, 12:53 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 37 min |
| Jan 21, 12:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert | 31 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.