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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 17, 2013York County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 17, 2013, 5:13 PM EDT for York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 17, 2013, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2013, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County York County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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
Jun 17, 5:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke, McDowell	56 min
Jun 17, 5:40 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke, McDowell	110 min
Jun 17, 6:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	51 min
Jun 17, 12:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	40 min
Jun 17, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	50 min
Jun 17, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	50 min
Jun 17, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	44 min
Jun 17, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	40 min
Jun 17, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	45 min
Jun 17, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	41 min
Jun 17, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	53 min
Jun 17, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	46 min
Jun 17, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	44 min
Jun 17, 1:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	64 min
Jun 17, 2:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens	53 min
Jun 17, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	45 min
Jun 17, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	39 min
Jun 17, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	44 min
Jun 17, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	39 min
Jun 17, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	51 min
Jun 17, 12:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham, Rabun, Stephens	61 min
Jun 17, 2:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Elbert, Hart	117 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South 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.