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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 24, 2013Catawba County, Iredell County, Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2013, 4:35 PM EDT for Catawba County, Iredell County, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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 24, 2013, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2013, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Catawba County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Rowan County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 1343 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 2:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 2:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
315 PM EDT MON JUN 24 2013

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-251915-
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-
315 PM EDT MON JUN 24 2013

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY AND PRODUCE
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. A FEW
OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

CDG

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:54 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 4:34 PM EDT, 1 minute 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 23, 11:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Transylvania	109 min
Jun 24, 12:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	3 hr
Jun 24, 1:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	3 hr
Jun 24, 4:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	3 hr
Jun 24, 12:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	38 min
Jun 24, 12:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	63 min
Jun 24, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	63 min
Jun 24, 1:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	61 min
Jun 24, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	45 min
Jun 24, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	56 min
Jun 24, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	41 min
Jun 24, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	56 min
Jun 24, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	50 min
Jun 24, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	51 min
Jun 24, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell	63 min
Jun 24, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	61 min
Jun 24, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	42 min
Jun 24, 3:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Union	105 min
Jun 24, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	44 min
Jun 24, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	43 min
Jun 24, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell	51 min
Jun 24, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Catawba	60 min
Jun 24, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	49 min
Jun 24, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	46 min
Jun 24, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	41 min
Jun 24, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln	68 min
Jun 24, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie, Rowan	65 min
Jun 24, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	62 min
Jun 24, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	41 min
Jun 24, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln	53 min
Jun 24, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey	64 min
Jun 24, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	50 min
Jun 24, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, McDowell	67 min
Jun 24, 12:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	59 min
Jun 24, 12:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	53 min
Jun 24, 12:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	York	67 min
Jun 24, 1:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	65 min
Jun 24, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	66 min
Jun 24, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	48 min
Jun 24, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	43 min
Jun 24, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	58 min
Jun 24, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union	67 min
Jun 24, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	51 min
Jun 24, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	50 min
Jun 24, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	43 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.