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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 10, 2013Cabarrus County, Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2013, 3:18 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, Rowan County, 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 10, 2013, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2013, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Rowan County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 10, 1:18 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 855 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 Jun 10, 2:59 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:59 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:07 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 2:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
216 PM EDT MON JUN 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0132 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 WSW SIMPSONVILLE      34.72N 82.29W
06/10/2013                   GREENVILLE         SC   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LINES DOWN NEELY FERRY RD/WEST GEORGIA ROAD

&&

LG

Local storm report, Jun 10, 2:31 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
231 PM EDT MON JUN 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0105 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 SE MARIETTA           35.01N 82.47W
06/10/2013                   GREENVILLE         SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN AT HWYS 276 AND 414

&&

LG

Local storm report, Jun 10, 2:34 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
234 PM EDT MON JUN 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0115 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 WNW TAYLORS           34.93N 82.37W
06/10/2013                   GREENVILLE         SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN AT STATE PARK AND JENNIFER CT RDS

&&

LG

Local storm report, Jun 10, 2:36 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
236 PM EDT MON JUN 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0105 PM     TSTM WND DMG     5 WNW HICKORY TAVERN    34.56N 82.27W
06/10/2013                   GREENVILLE         SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN ON HWY 414

&&

LG

Local storm report, Jun 10, 2:38 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
238 PM EDT MON JUN 10 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0118 PM     TSTM WND DMG     PIEDMONT                34.71N 82.46W
06/10/2013                   ANDERSON           SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWNN ON SALUDA DR.

&&

LG

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:13 PM EDT, 5 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
Jun 9, 9:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	GSP	Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 22 more	19 hr
Jun 10, 1:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	38 min
Jun 10, 4:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Transylvania	3 hr
Jun 10, 6:32 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	118 min
Jun 10, 1:28 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	12 hr
Jun 10, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	42 min
Jun 10, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	48 min
Jun 10, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	66 min
Jun 10, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union	56 min
Jun 10, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	47 min
Jun 10, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	56 min
Jun 10, 6:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba, Iredell	23 hr
Jun 9, 9:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee	76 min
Jun 10, 12:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	46 min
Jun 10, 11:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	65 min
Jun 10, 12:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson, Pickens	44 min
Jun 10, 12:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens	55 min
Jun 10, 1:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg	50 min
Jun 10, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	52 min
Jun 10, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	65 min
Jun 9, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	40 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.