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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 2, 2012, 3:40 AM EST for Abbeville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 35 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 2, 2012, 3:40 AM EST (08:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 4:15 AM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Abbeville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:42 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 580 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Mar 2, 12:53 AM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 2, 12:53 AM EST, 2 hours 47 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Mar 2, 3:40 AM EST, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 340 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 GAZ028-029-SCZ010-011-020915- ABBEVILLE-ANDERSON-ELBERT-HART- 340 AM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN ABBEVILLE...NORTHERN ELBERT...SOUTHEASTERN HART AND SOUTHERN ANDERSON COUNTIES THROUGH 415 AM EST... AT 336 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES EAST OF NUBERG...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARTWELL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR... IVA... SECESSION LAKE... ANTREVILLE... DUE WEST... SMALL HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3449 8243 3428 8235 3416 8288 3434 8295 RB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:43 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 8:02 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 43 min |
| Mar 2, 8:52 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 9:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 9:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 10:03 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 42 min |
| Mar 2, 10:49 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Davie, Iredell | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 11:16 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 11:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 1:09 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 1:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 2:29 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 3:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison | 23 min |
| Mar 2, 4:54 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 5:26 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 5:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, Union | 38 min |
| Mar 2, 6:05 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 7:49 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 41 min |
| Mar 2, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee | 40 min |
| Mar 2, 4:14 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 4:25 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 35 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.