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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 25, 2013Burke County, McDowell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2013, 2:03 PM EDT for Burke County, McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 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 25, 2013, 2:03 PM EDT (18:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2013, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Burke County, NC, McDowell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 25, 2:03 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:03 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 11:03 AM EDT, 3 hours before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 12:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 12:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 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 24, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	50 min
Jun 24, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	45 min
Jun 24, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Rutherford	66 min
Jun 24, 9:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rutherford	2 hr
Jun 24, 9:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	45 min
Jun 24, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	50 min
Jun 24, 10:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	3 hr
Jun 25, 12:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	41 min
Jun 25, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	66 min
Jun 25, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	57 min
Jun 25, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke, McDowell	66 min
Jun 25, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	65 min
Jun 25, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	61 min
Jun 25, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	58 min
Jun 25, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	41 min
Jun 25, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	55 min
Jun 25, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mitchell, Yancey	56 min
Jun 25, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	64 min
Jun 25, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey	63 min
Jun 25, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	38 min
Jun 25, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	48 min
Jun 25, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	62 min
Jun 25, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	54 min
Jun 25, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	47 min
Jun 25, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens	63 min
Jun 25, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	53 min
Jun 25, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	47 min
Jun 25, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	53 min
Jun 25, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	49 min
Jun 25, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	43 min
Jun 25, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg	56 min
Jun 25, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	44 min
Jun 25, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	39 min
Jun 25, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	42 min
Jun 25, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	53 min
Jun 25, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	41 min
Jun 25, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	50 min
Jun 25, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	41 min
Jun 25, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg	60 min
Jun 25, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	63 min
Jun 25, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	51 min
Jun 25, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	39 min
Jun 25, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens	67 min
Jun 25, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	47 min
Jun 25, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens, Spartanburg, Union	57 min

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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.