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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2013, 3:03 AM EDT for 9 counties in 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 27, 2013, 3:03 AM EDT (07:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2013, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 771 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 1:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 1:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 319 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2013 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-271930- 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- 319 PM EDT WED JUN 26 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. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY AND PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ALONG WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. A WEAK FRONTS PASSING THROUGH THE AREA BOTH THURSDAY AND AGAIN ON FRIDAY WILL TRIGGER TO SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW OF WHICH ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. OTHERWISE...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. LG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 9:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 9:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 3:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Haywood, McDowell and 2 more | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 4:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Madison | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 7:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Gaston | 110 min |
| Jun 27, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 72 min |
| Jun 27, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 42 min |
| Jun 27, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 49 min |
| Jun 27, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, York | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 5:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Spartanburg | 2 hr |
| Jun 27, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 54 min |
| Jun 27, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 40 min |
| Jun 27, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 57 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.