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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 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
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 11:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 46 min |
| May 31, 11:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 55 min |
| Jun 1, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 29 min |
| Jun 1, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke, Caldwell, McDowell | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 25 min |
| Jun 1, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 41 min |
| Jun 1, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 24 min |
| Jun 1, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 25 min |
| Jun 1, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 7:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 31 min |
| May 31, 11:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 1:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 53 min |
| Jun 1, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 37 min |
| Jun 1, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 34 min |
| Jun 1, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 31 min |
| Jun 1, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 24 min |
| Jun 1, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 24 min |
| May 31, 10:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham | 39 min |
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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.