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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 1, 2012Gaston County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2012, 6:02 PM EDT for Gaston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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
Jun 1, 2012, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2012, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Gaston County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2012-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2012-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Jun 1, 4:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 4:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 3:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
321 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2012

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-020430-
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-
321 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THROUGH THIS EVENING.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA
AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. A
FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE
WEATHER...MAINLY IN THE FORM OF DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE
HAIL. ALSO...THERE COULD BE ENOUGH WIND SHEAR AT LOW LEVELS OF THE
ATMOSPHERE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TORNADO OR TWO. THE
GREATEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA
UPSTATE AND THE CAROLINA PIEDMONT FROM MID AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY
EVENING. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD END WITH THE PASSAGE
OF THE COLD FRONT FROM THE WEST AROUND SUNSET.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

KRENTZ

In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 6:02 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 11:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania46 min
May 31, 11:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon41 min
Jun 1, 12:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain64 min
Jun 1, 1:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus, Rowan50 min
Jun 1, 1:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison, Mitchell, Yancey47 min
Jun 1, 1:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg44 min
Jun 1, 2:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion44 min
Jun 1, 2:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey55 min
Jun 1, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan46 min
Jun 1, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Rowan29 min
Jun 1, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg42 min
Jun 1, 2:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan47 min
Jun 1, 3:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery37 min
Jun 1, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke, Caldwell, McDowell36 min
Jun 1, 4:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus25 min
Jun 1, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke41 min
Jun 1, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan24 min
Jun 1, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston25 min
Jun 1, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion45 min
Jun 1, 7:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion50 min
Jun 1, 7:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan37 min
Jun 1, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion31 min
May 31, 11:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood45 min
Jun 1, 1:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester53 min
Jun 1, 1:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork37 min
Jun 1, 2:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee34 min
Jun 1, 3:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson, Greenville, Pickens26 min
Jun 1, 5:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion34 min
Jun 1, 5:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork33 min
Jun 1, 6:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork31 min
Jun 1, 7:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork24 min
Jun 1, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester24 min
May 31, 10:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHabersham39 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.