Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2013, 4:27 PM EDT for Abbeville County, Greenwood County, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2013, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2013, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Abbeville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 975 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 10:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 48 min |
| Jun 17, 11:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 12:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 7:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham, Swain | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 7:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Rowan | 115 min |
| Jun 17, 8:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 8:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 10:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville | 110 min |
| Jun 18, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 53 min |
| Jun 18, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 5:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Spartanburg | 2 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 40 min |
Nearby
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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.