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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 12, 2014Cleveland County, Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2014, 8:38 PM EDT for Cleveland County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 12, 2014, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2014, 9:19 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cleveland County, NC, Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 12, 7:50 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 7:50 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 12, 11:04 AM EDT, 9 hours 34 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1104 AM EDT THU JUN 12 2014

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-131515-
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-
1104 AM EDT THU JUN 12 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE
SLOWLY...BRINGING A THREAT OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TO AFFECTED
AREAS. ANY SERIES OF THUNDERSTORMS AFFECTING THE SAME LOCATION
COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BUT BRIEF
GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST THREAT OF DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL WILL BE NEAR THE INTERSTATE 77
CORRIDOR IN THE PIEDMONT OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

..FRIDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..SATURDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..SUNDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..MONDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..TUESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO RELAY ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING...DAMAGING
WINDS...OR LARGE HAIL TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

GERAPETRITIS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 12, 6:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 8:09 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 12, 8:10 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 12, 8:30 PM EDT, 8 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 12, 8:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	51 min
Jun 12, 8:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	60 min
Jun 12, 9:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Rutherford	119 min
Jun 12, 10:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cleveland, Lincoln	111 min
Jun 12, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	46 min
Jun 13, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	42 min
Jun 13, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	52 min
Jun 13, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson, Macon	53 min
Jun 13, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	67 min
Jun 13, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon	55 min
Jun 13, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson	48 min
Jun 13, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	63 min
Jun 13, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	56 min
Jun 13, 5:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson	114 min
Jun 13, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell, Rutherford	65 min
Jun 13, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	42 min
Jun 13, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	57 min
Jun 13, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	52 min
Jun 13, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	52 min
Jun 13, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	64 min
Jun 13, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	43 min
Jun 13, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	57 min
Jun 13, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	34 min
Jun 13, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	39 min
Jun 13, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	41 min
Jun 13, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	55 min
Jun 13, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	54 min
Jun 13, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	57 min
Jun 13, 6:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	50 min
Jun 13, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	58 min
Jun 13, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	46 min
Jun 13, 6:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	55 min
Jun 13, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	46 min
Jun 13, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	60 min
Jun 13, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	52 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	50 min
Jun 13, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Hart	47 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.