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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 26, 2013Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2013, 3:08 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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 26, 2013, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 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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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 26, 2:40 PM EDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:40 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 10:59 AM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:13 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:54 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:02 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:08 PM EDT, 0 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 26, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	39 min
Jun 26, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	47 min
Jun 26, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell	67 min
Jun 26, 2:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mitchell	2 hr
Jun 26, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	51 min
Jun 26, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	43 min
Jun 26, 3:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Caldwell	116 min
Jun 26, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell, Rutherford	39 min
Jun 26, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Cleveland, Rutherford	48 min
Jun 26, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	52 min
Jun 26, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	44 min
Jun 26, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon, Transylvania	52 min
Jun 26, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell, Catawba	48 min
Jun 26, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	46 min
Jun 26, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	65 min
Jun 26, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Davie, Iredell	59 min
Jun 26, 4:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Iredell	107 min
Jun 26, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	47 min
Jun 26, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	41 min
Jun 26, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 26, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	57 min
Jun 26, 5:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Rowan	113 min
Jun 26, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	60 min
Jun 26, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	79 min
Jun 26, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	64 min
Jun 26, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	38 min
Jun 26, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	54 min
Jun 26, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	60 min
Jun 25, 8:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	52 min
Jun 26, 12:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	39 min
Jun 26, 1:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	55 min
Jun 26, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	52 min
Jun 26, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	42 min
Jun 26, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	49 min
Jun 26, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	50 min
Jun 26, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	45 min
Jun 26, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, Union	39 min
Jun 26, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	45 min
Jun 26, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	75 min
Jun 26, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	50 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.