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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 3, 2015Anderson County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2015, 7:48 PM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina. It was in force for 57 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 3, 2015, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2015, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Anderson County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 3, 7:13 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 7:13 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 11:35 AM EDT, 8 hours 13 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1135 AM EDT WED JUN 3 2015

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501-503-
505-507-509-SCZ001>014-019-041545-
RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-MADISON-YANCEY-
MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD-BUNCOMBE-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-
SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-CALDWELL MOUNTAINS-
BURKE MOUNTAINS-MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS-RUTHERFORD MOUNTAINS-
POLK MOUNTAINS-OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-
GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-
GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-
LAURENS-UNION-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
1135 AM EDT WED JUN 3 2015

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS
THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA PIEDMONT THIS
AFTERNOON...THEN DIMINISH THIS EVENING. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS POSED BY THE
THUNDERSTORMS. THE ENVIRONMENT WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR A FEW OF THE
STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

..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.
..TUESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506-508-510-041545-
ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-
MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION-GREATER CALDWELL-GREATER BURKE-
EASTERN MCDOWELL-GREATER RUTHERFORD-EASTERN POLK-
1135 AM EDT WED JUN 3 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA AND
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

..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.
..TUESDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:19 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:21 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:23 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:24 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 3, 7:36 PM EDT, 12 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 2, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	37 min
Jun 3, 2:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Jackson, Macon	3 hr
Jun 3, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	37 min
Jun 3, 3:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon	119 min
Jun 3, 6:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Transylvania	117 min
Jun 3, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	34 min
Jun 2, 9:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	37 min
Jun 2, 10:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	33 min
Jun 2, 10:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	28 min
Jun 2, 10:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	30 min
Jun 2, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	31 min
Jun 2, 11:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenwood	3 hr
Jun 2, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	23 min
Jun 3, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	33 min
Jun 3, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	37 min
Jun 3, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	59 min
Jun 3, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	28 min
Jun 3, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	64 min
Jun 3, 7:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee	2 hr
Jun 3, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	26 min
Jun 3, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	24 min
Jun 3, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	24 min
Jun 2, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	44 min
Jun 3, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	34 min
Jun 3, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	24 min
Jun 3, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	29 min
Jun 3, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	31 min
Jun 3, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	24 min
Jun 3, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham	44 min
Jun 3, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stephens	34 min
Jun 3, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	24 min
Jun 3, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	27 min
Jun 3, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	36 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.