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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 4, 2015Haywood County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2015, 2:19 PM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 4, 2015, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2015, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Haywood County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 820 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Aug 4, 2:05 PM EDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:05 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 5:46 AM EDT, 8 hours 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
546 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

GAZ010-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-068>072-082-501>510-
SCZ001>003-051000-
RABUN-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-
546 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE FORECAST TODAY FOR THE MOUNTAINS...
FOOTHILLS...AND WESTERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA...THE SOUTH
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...AND RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE
MAIN HAZARD WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

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

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

GAZ017-018-026-028-029-SCZ004>014-019-051000-
HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-GREATER OCONEE-
GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG-CHEROKEE-YORK-
ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION-CHESTER-GREENWOOD-
546 AM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

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

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

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

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

07

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:19 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
219 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

NCZ052-059-041900-
HAYWOOD NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC-
219 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 2015

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN JACKSON
AND CENTRAL HAYWOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM EDT...

AT 218 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6
MILES NORTH OF WAYNESVILLE...MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESVILLE...LAKE JUNALUSKA...CLYDE...MAGGIE VALLEY...BALSAM...B.R.
PARKWAY-SMOKY MOUNTAINS TO BALSAM GAP...SMOKY
MOUNTAINS-CATALOOCHEE...SMOKY MOUNTAINS-BALSAM MOUNTAIN...B.R.
PARKWAY-BALSAM GAP TO BLACK BALSAM AREA AND COVE CREEK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS CAN BLOW DOWN TREES THAT ARE DEAD...OR THAT HAVE WEAKENED
ROOT SYSTEMS. OUTDOOR FURNITURE AND SIMILAR ITEMS CAN BE TOSSED
AROUND IF NOT ANCHORED. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

&&

LAT...LON 3546 8283 3536 8304 3552 8320 3552 8318
      3553 8317 3554 8317 3555 8316 3558 8317
      3559 8318 3567 8303
TIME...MOT...LOC 1818Z 240DEG 48KT 3558 8302

LG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	36 min
Aug 4, 2:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	35 min
Aug 4, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	31 min
Aug 4, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	24 min
Aug 4, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	63 min
Aug 4, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	46 min
Aug 4, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	60 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.