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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 29, 2014Habersham County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 29, 2014, 4:12 PM EDT for Habersham County, Georgia. It was in force for 33 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 29, 2014, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2014, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Habersham County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 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 29, 2:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 4:13 AM EDT, 11 hours 59 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:35 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:44 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:02 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 4:12 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 28, 10:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford	49 min
Jun 28, 11:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	59 min
Jun 28, 11:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, McDowell, Polk	79 min
Jun 29, 12:28 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	2 hr
Jun 29, 2:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	44 min
Jun 29, 3:16 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	4 hr
Jun 29, 3:34 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, McDowell	3 hr
Jun 29, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	40 min
Jun 29, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	33 min
Jun 29, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	39 min
Jun 29, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	29 min
Jun 29, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Madison	42 min
Jun 29, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	47 min
Jun 29, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Madison, Yancey	42 min
Jun 29, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	46 min
Jun 29, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford, Yancey	2 hr
Jun 28, 8:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Abbeville, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens	62 min
Jun 29, 2:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	2 hr
Jun 29, 3:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	64 min
Jun 29, 4:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	50 min
Jun 29, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	43 min
Jun 29, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens	51 min
Jun 29, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	31 min
Jun 29, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	23 min
Jun 29, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Stephens	53 min
Jun 29, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	51 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.