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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 18, 2012Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2012, 7:08 PM EDT for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 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 18, 2012, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 343 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: 85 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1073 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 17, 9:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mecklenburg	112 min
Mar 18, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	41 min
Mar 18, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	57 min
Mar 18, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	46 min
Mar 18, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	48 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2012 Every special weather statement 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.