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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 20, 2012, 12:37 PM EDT for Avery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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 20, 2012, 12:37 PM EDT (16:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2012, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Avery County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 746 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 926 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 20, 10:56 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 20, 10:56 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 20, 5:03 AM EDT, 7 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 503 AM EDT TUE MAR 20 2012 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-068-501>510- SCZ001>008-010-210915- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL- SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON- SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CLEVELAND-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-ANDERSON- 503 AM EDT TUE MAR 20 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. GAZ029-NCZ035>037-056-057-069>072-082-SCZ009-011>014-019-210915- ELBERT-ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-LINCOLN-GASTON- MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION NC-YORK-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION SC- CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 503 AM EDT TUE MAR 20 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 12:37 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1237 PM EDT TUE MAR 20 2012
NCZ033-501-201715-
AVERY-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-
1237 PM EDT TUE MAR 20 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AVERY AND NORTHWESTERN CALDWELL
COUNTIES THROUGH 115 PM EDT...
AT 1231 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LINVILLE...OR 5 MILES EAST OF NEWLAND. THIS
STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
* OTHER LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LINVILLE...
EDGEMONT...SUGAR MOUNTAIN...NEWLAND...MINNEAPOLIS...GRANDFATHER
MOUNTAIN...ELK PARK...CROSSNORE AND BANNER ELK.
SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAIN ARE EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3616 8182 3612 8181 3612 8170 3595 8177
3598 8187 3600 8190 3597 8193 3598 8206
3621 8198 3621 8197
07The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 30 min |
| Mar 20, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Swain | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 51 min |
| Mar 20, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 44 min |
| Mar 20, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 56 min |
| Mar 20, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 51 min |
| Mar 20, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 49 min |
| Mar 20, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 42 min |
| Mar 20, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 42 min |
| Mar 20, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 43 min |
| Mar 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie, Rowan | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 49 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2012Every 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.