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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 19, 2013Gaston County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Apr 19, 2013, 4:04 PM EDT for Gaston County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2013, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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
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, 4:08 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, 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

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.