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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2013, 1:52 PM EDT for Abbeville County, Anderson County, South Carolina; Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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
- Apr 19, 2013, 1:52 PM EDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2013, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Elbert County, GA, Hart County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 3:40 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and 4 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Burke | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 42 min |
| Apr 19, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg and 1 more | 65 min |
| Apr 19, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 26 min |
| Apr 19, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Union | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 30 min |
| Apr 19, 12:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 45 min |
| Apr 19, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson, Greenville | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood | 44 min |
| Apr 19, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, York | 41 min |
| Apr 19, 11:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Franklin, Habersham, Stephens | 48 min |
| Apr 19, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert | 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.