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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 219, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 10, 2015Elbert County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2015, 2:16 PM EDT for Elbert County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 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: Aug 10, 2015, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2015, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Elbert County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 374 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -92 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 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 Aug 10, 1:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 1:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 4:08 AM EDT, 10 hours 8 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
408 AM EDT MON AUG 10 2015

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035-048>053-056-058-059-062>065-
068>070-501>510-SCZ001>008-010-011-110815-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-ALEXANDER-
MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-CATAWBA-GRAHAM-
NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-
CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-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-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-
408 AM EDT MON AUG 10 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
BY MIDDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PEAK IN COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON BUT
WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE MUCH OF TONIGHT. ANY OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY
RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE
FOR A FEW OF THE STORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...MAINLY
THOSE STORMS DEVELOPING IN THE LATE AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

..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.
..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.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

NCZ036-037-057-071-072-082-SCZ009-012>014-019-110815-
IREDELL-DAVIE-ROWAN-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION-YORK-LAURENS-CHESTER-
GREENWOOD-
408 AM EDT MON AUG 10 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MOST OF THE INTERSTATE 77
CORRIDOR OF NORTH CAROLINA...AND THE LOWER PIEDMONT OF SOUTH
CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
BEGINNING AROUND MIDDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PEAK IN COVERAGE THIS
AFTERNOON BEFORE BECOMING FEWER IN THE EVENING. ANY OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...HEAVY
RAIN...AND GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

..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.
..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.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

WIMBERLEY

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 1:52 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
152 PM EDT MON AUG 10 2015

GAZ029-101815-
ELBERT GA-
152 PM EDT MON AUG 10 2015

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF WESTERN ELBERT COUNTY
UNTIL 215 PM EDT...

AT 152 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBERTON...OR NEAR BOWMAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ELBERTON...BOWMAN...RUSSELL STATE PARK...LAKE RUSSELL...
RUCKERSVILLE...DEWY ROSE...SWEET CITY AND ROCK BRANCH.

LAT...LON 3409 8302 3410 8304 3411 8303 3412 8305
      3415 8306 3417 8310 3423 8307 3423 8300
      3421 8298 3425 8291 3425 8275 3419 8273
      3402 8292
TIME...MOT...LOC 1752Z 298DEG 13KT 3421 8299

CSH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham, Swain	43 min
Aug 10, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	51 min
Aug 10, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell	41 min
Aug 10, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	33 min
Aug 10, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell	45 min
Aug 10, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln	30 min
Aug 10, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	27 min
Aug 10, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	25 min
Aug 10, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	31 min
Aug 10, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	30 min
Aug 10, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	28 min
Aug 10, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Mitchell, Yancey	27 min
Aug 10, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Mecklenburg, Rowan	29 min
Aug 10, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	50 min
Aug 10, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	38 min
Aug 10, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	63 min
Aug 10, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Oconee	59 min
Aug 10, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	49 min
Aug 10, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	23 min
Aug 10, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	51 min

Nearby

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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.