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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 14, 2012Swain County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 14, 2012, 6:47 PM EDT for Swain County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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 14, 2012, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Swain County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 1971 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 887 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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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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 14, 5:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 5:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:47 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 9:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	33 min
Jun 13, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	54 min
Jun 13, 10:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	McDowell	60 min
Jun 13, 10:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	39 min
Jun 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	26 min
Jun 14, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	34 min
Jun 14, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	26 min
Jun 14, 7:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	34 min
Jun 13, 9:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	31 min
Jun 13, 10:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	37 min
Jun 13, 10:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	32 min
Jun 14, 3:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	32 min
Jun 14, 4:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	29 min
Jun 14, 4:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	57 min
Jun 14, 5:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	74 min
Jun 14, 5:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Pickens	61 min
Jun 14, 5:41 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville	79 min
Jun 14, 6:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	74 min
Jun 14, 6:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	56 min
Jun 14, 6:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	77 min
Jun 14, 8:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville	2 hr
Jun 14, 7:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Stephens	3 hr
Jun 14, 7:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	46 min
Jun 14, 8:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	24 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North 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.