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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 27, 2015Davie County, Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2015, 3:54 PM EDT for Davie County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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 27, 2015, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2015, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Davie County, NC, Iredell County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 253 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 579 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 27, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 11:45 AM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 12:02 PM EDT, 3 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:14 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:29 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:41 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:46 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
346 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015

SCZ001>007-010-272045-
GREATER PICKENS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-
OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-GREATER GREENVILLE SC-SPARTANBURG SC-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-ANDERSON SC-
346 PM EDT SAT JUN 27 2015

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
OCONEE...PICKENS...NORTHWESTERN SPARTANBURG...NORTHERN GREENVILLE AND
NORTH CENTRAL ANDERSON COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EDT...

AT 346 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF BREVARD
TO 8 MILES WEST OF WALHALLA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EASLEY...CLEMSON...SENECA...WALHALLA...PICKENS...TAYLORS...GREENVILLE
DOWNTOWN...BEREA...TRAVELERS REST AND CENTRAL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY FLOOD AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE...SUCH AS
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO RISE
RAPIDLY. SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. IF OUTDOORS...TRY
TO GET INDOORS OR INTO A HARD TOPPED VEHICLE. OTHERWISE...STAY AWAY
FROM OPEN AREAS AND ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. WHEN
INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING WIRED
ELECTRONIC DEVICES. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY APPLIANCES BEFORE THE
STORMS APPROACH.

&&

LAT...LON 3471 8335 3507 8278 3510 8270 3513 8268
      3514 8201 3466 8270
TIME...MOT...LOC 1946Z 272DEG 22KT 3510 8267 3475 8321

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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, 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, 9:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	43 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, 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.