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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2015, 9:47 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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 26, 2015, 9:47 PM EDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2015, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1418 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 26, 8:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 8:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 423 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-271100- 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- 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-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 423 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. MEANWHILE...ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ..SATURDAY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. ..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. ..THURSDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. STUREY
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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 8:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 8:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 9:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 9:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 10:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Mecklenburg | 114 min |
| Jun 27, 1:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 33 min |
| Jun 27, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 46 min |
| Jun 27, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 61 min |
| Jun 27, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie, Iredell | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 47 min |
| Jun 27, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 71 min |
| Jun 27, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 8:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 9:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | York | 117 min |
| Jun 27, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 41 min |
| Jun 27, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 48 min |
| Jun 27, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert | 31 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.