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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 4, 2012Laurens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 4, 2012, 6:21 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 39 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 4, 2012, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Laurens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 277 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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
Jun 4, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	31 min
Jun 4, 1:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	48 min
Jun 4, 3:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	42 min
Jun 4, 3:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	48 min
Jun 4, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	56 min
Jun 4, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	42 min
Jun 4, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	27 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.