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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 302, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 2014, 4:45 PM EDT for Greenville County, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 60 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
- Sep 16, 2014, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2014, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greenville County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 244 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Sep 16, 3:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 16, 3:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 16, 2:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 257 PM EDT TUE SEP 16 2014 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-171900- 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- 257 PM EDT TUE SEP 16 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE SLIDING SOUTHEAST INTO THE SC UPSTATE...NORTHEAST GA...AND NC PIEDMONT BY EARLY EVENING. MODEST INSTABILITY AND INCREASING SHEAR AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL PRESENT AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ..WEDNESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ..THURSDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. ..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. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. CDG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Sep 16, 4:13 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson, Polk | 62 min |
| Sep 16, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 65 min |
| Sep 16, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 61 min |
| Sep 16, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 50 min |
| Sep 16, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 48 min |
| Sep 16, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 25 min |
| Sep 16, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 32 min |
| Sep 16, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 49 min |
| Sep 16, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 62 min |
| Sep 16, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 65 min |
| Sep 16, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 52 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.