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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 22, 2012Graham County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2012, 2:41 AM EDT for Graham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 79 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 22, 2012, 2:41 AM EDT (06:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2012, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Graham County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -343 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -29 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 22, 1:51 AM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 1:51 AM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 21, 10:34 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 12:31 AM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:19 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 2:41 AM 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 22, 12:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	59 min
Jun 22, 1:19 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	71 min
Jun 22, 11:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	40 min
Jun 22, 12:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell	53 min
Jun 22, 12:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	45 min
Jun 22, 1:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	41 min
Jun 22, 1:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, McDowell	64 min
Jun 22, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	50 min
Jun 22, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	39 min
Jun 22, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	61 min
Jun 22, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln	61 min
Jun 22, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Madison	54 min
Jun 22, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	52 min
Jun 22, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	43 min
Jun 22, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	45 min
Jun 22, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	55 min
Jun 22, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	62 min
Jun 22, 3:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie	56 min
Jun 22, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	61 min
Jun 22, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	41 min
Jun 22, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	56 min
Jun 22, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	51 min
Jun 22, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	52 min
Jun 22, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	48 min
Jun 22, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Swain	52 min
Jun 22, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	48 min
Jun 22, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	38 min
Jun 22, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	38 min
Jun 22, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Yancey	52 min
Jun 22, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	48 min
Jun 22, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mitchell, Yancey	45 min
Jun 22, 7:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Madison, Mitchell, Yancey	107 min
Jun 22, 7:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Yancey	116 min
Jun 22, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	50 min
Jun 22, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	40 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.