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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT for Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Union County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 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, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 53 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.