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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 186, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 9, 2013Chester County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2013, 3:03 PM EDT for Chester County, South 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: Jul 9, 2013, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Chester County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 1740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 595 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 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 Jul 9, 2:30 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 2:30 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 9, 6:33 AM EDT, 8 hours 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 9:18 AM EDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 9, 11:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 9, 2:48 PM EDT, 15 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
Jul 8, 9:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	44 min
Jul 8, 9:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	3 days
Jul 8, 9:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	104 min
Jul 8, 9:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	49 min
Jul 8, 10:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	52 min
Jul 9, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	51 min
Jul 9, 5:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell	86 min
Jul 9, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	50 min
Jul 9, 7:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mitchell	2 hr
Jul 9, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	38 min
Jul 8, 10:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Anderson	2 hr
Jul 8, 10:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Greenville	3 hr
Jul 8, 10:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	119 min
Jul 8, 11:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Anderson	3 hr
Jul 8, 11:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Oconee	3 hr
Jul 8, 11:48 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Anderson	58 hr
Jul 8, 11:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	57 min
Jul 9, 12:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	51 min
Jul 9, 1:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	59 min
Jul 9, 1:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Anderson	3 hr
Jul 9, 2:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	64 min
Jul 9, 4:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg	4 hr
Jul 9, 6:15 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	6 hr
Jul 9, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	42 min
Jul 9, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	42 min
Jul 9, 7:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	49 min
Jul 9, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	46 min
Jul 9, 12:44 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Franklin, Hart, Stephens	106 min
Jul 9, 12:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	46 min
Jul 9, 1:11 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Franklin, Hart	3 hr
Jul 9, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham, Stephens	52 min
Jul 9, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	44 min
Jul 9, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	45 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.