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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2013, 5:38 PM EDT for Anderson County, Oconee County, South Carolina; Franklin County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 67 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
- May 22, 2013, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2013, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, GA, Hart County, GA, Anderson County, SC, Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 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 May 22, 5:06 PM EDT, 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 5:06 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 4:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 410 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-231100- 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- 410 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. SOME OF STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLOOD ISSUES. EVEN AS WE REACH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME POTENTIALLY SEVERE...MAY STILL BE ONGOING...PARTICULARLY AREAS WEST OF INTERSTATE 26. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THURSDAY DURING THE PEAK DAYTIME HEATING HOURS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. STUREY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:08 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
519 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
SCZ003-222145-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-
519 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY
THROUGH 545 PM EDT...
AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLEVELAND...OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
BREVARD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
TIGERVILLE...
NORTH SALUDA RESERVOIR...
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET
IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND
SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED.
LAT...LON 3501 8257 3506 8260 3507 8257 3507 8260
3511 8262 3517 8245 3516 8245 3519 8242
3521 8238 3518 8237 3519 8236 3507 8230
LANESpecial weather statement, May 22, 5:26 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
526 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
NCZ505-506-222200-
EASTERN MCDOWELL-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-
526 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL MCDOWELL COUNTY THROUGH
600 PM EDT...
AT 521 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MARION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
MARION...
LAKE JAMES...
PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
DIME TO NICKEL SIZE HAIL CAN CAUSE CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO VEHICLES.
CONSIDER MOVING VEHICLES TO A COVERED STORAGE AREA BEFORE THE STORM
ARRIVES.
PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET
IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND
SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED.
LAT...LON 3580 8198 3574 8190 3568 8187 3563 8203
3569 8208
LANESpecial weather statement, May 22, 5:29 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 529 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013 GAZ010-NCZ062-222200- MACON-RABUN- 529 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN RABUN AND SOUTHERN MACON COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM EDT... AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF DILLARD...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF CLAYTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR... OTTO... DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1... 800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED. LAT...LON 3517 8340 3504 8322 3494 8346 3499 8353 LANE
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:31 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
531 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
NCZ058-222200-
GRAHAM-
531 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN GRAHAM COUNTY THROUGH
600 PM EDT...
AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROBBINSVILLE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
STECOAH...
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET
IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND
SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED.
LAT...LON 3545 8377 3544 8367 3542 8365 3543 8364
3542 8358 3541 8359 3533 8366 3532 8369
3530 8369 3527 8372 3530 8381
LANESpecial weather statement, May 22, 5:34 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
534 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
GAZ026-028-222200-
FRANKLIN-HART-
534 PM EDT WED MAY 22 2013
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EASTERN FRANKLIN AND
NORTHWESTERN HART COUNTIES THROUGH 600 PM EDT...
AT 529 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR FRANKLIN SPRINGS...OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
CARNESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR...
LAVONIA...
WHITWORTH...
REED CREEK...
LAKE HARTWELL...
DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH
THIS STORM.
PLEASE REPORT DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL...OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1...
800...2 6 7...8 1 0 1...OR BY POSTING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE...OR TWEET
IT USING HASHTAG NWSGSP. YOUR MESSAGE SHOULD DESCRIBE THE EVENT AND
SPECIFIC LOCATION WHERE IT OCCURRED.
LAT...LON 3432 8321 3450 8311 3449 8304 3447 8301
3448 8298 3446 8287 3427 8314
LANEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 45 min |
| May 21, 8:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 40 min |
| May 21, 8:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 43 min |
| May 21, 9:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 47 min |
| May 21, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell | 65 min |
| May 21, 9:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 50 min |
| May 21, 10:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 32 min |
| May 22, 11:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Mitchell, Transylvania and 1 more | 44 min |
| May 22, 11:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 61 min |
| May 22, 12:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 42 min |
| May 22, 12:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 48 min |
| May 22, 12:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 42 min |
| May 22, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 43 min |
| May 22, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 50 min |
| May 22, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 40 min |
| May 22, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 49 min |
| May 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 45 min |
| May 22, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 56 min |
| May 22, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 49 min |
| May 22, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 47 min |
| May 22, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 39 min |
| May 22, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson, Swain | 66 min |
| May 22, 3:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Caldwell | 115 min |
| May 22, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 41 min |
| May 22, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 23 min |
| May 22, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 27 min |
| May 22, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 24 min |
| May 22, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 35 min |
| May 22, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 30 min |
| May 22, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Yancey | 29 min |
| May 22, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell, Yancey | 56 min |
| May 22, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 36 min |
| May 22, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 35 min |
| May 22, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 31 min |
| May 22, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 38 min |
| May 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 50 min |
| May 22, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 62 min |
| May 22, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 35 min |
| May 22, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 34 min |
| May 22, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 31 min |
| May 22, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 66 min |
| May 22, 5:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 34 min |
| May 22, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 31 min |
| May 22, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 29 min |
| May 22, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 28 min |
| May 22, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 55 min |
| May 22, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 23 min |
| May 22, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 32 min |
| May 22, 7:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford | 112 min |
| May 22, 7:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 30 min |
| May 22, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 45 min |
| May 22, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 27 min |
| May 22, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 30 min |
| May 22, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 29 min |
| May 22, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 37 min |
| May 22, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 33 min |
| May 22, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 26 min |
| May 22, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 24 min |
| May 22, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 26 min |
| May 22, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 34 min |
| May 22, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 62 min |
| May 22, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 35 min |
| May 21, 8:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Rabun | 2 hr |
| May 22, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 41 min |
| May 22, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert | 33 min |
| May 22, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Franklin | 23 min |
| May 22, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Hart | 26 min |
| May 22, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Hart | 46 min |
| May 22, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 34 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.