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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 10, 2012Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2012, 6:13 PM EDT for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 10, 2012, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 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 Aug 10, 5:37 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 5:37 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 3:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
325 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2012

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-111930-
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-
325 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2012

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST FOR LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING
DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS.

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

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

LG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 10, 2:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 10, 2:06 PM EDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 5:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 6:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
613 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2012

NCZ064-SCZ002-003-102245-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-TRANSYLVANIA-
613 PM EDT FRI AUG 10 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN PICKENS...NORTHWESTERN
GREENVILLE AND SOUTHERN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES THROUGH 645 PM EDT...

AT 612 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKE JOCASSEE...OR 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF PICKENS...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

PEOPLE IN NORTHERN PICKENS...NORTHWESTERN GREENVILLE AND SOUTHERN
TRANSYLVANIA COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

LAKE JOCASSEE...ROCKY BOTTOM AND TABLE ROCK RESERVOIR...

SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE
WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE
WEATHER THREATEN.

PEA SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

LAT...LON 3515 8296 3515 8267 3494 8261 3492 8266
      3495 8290 3502 8292 3505 8290 3505 8293

NED

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 8:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	28 min
Aug 9, 8:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	29 min
Aug 9, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	50 min
Aug 10, 4:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Caldwell	59 min
Aug 10, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	28 min
Aug 9, 8:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	38 min
Aug 10, 2:48 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville	2 hr
Aug 10, 4:54 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville	2 hr
Aug 10, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	36 min
Aug 10, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	38 min
Aug 10, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	33 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.