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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2015, 10:07 PM EDT for York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 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 5, 2015, 10:07 PM EDT (02:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2387 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 5, 10:00 PM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 10:00 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 337 PM EDT WED AUG 5 2015 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-061945- 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- 337 PM EDT WED AUG 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING BEFORE DIMINISHING. THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL OR 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. HG
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 1:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 24 min |
| Aug 5, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 9:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 10:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 11:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 28 min |
| Aug 6, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 49 min |
| Aug 6, 1:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 1:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, Union | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 45 min |
| Aug 6, 1:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 2:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 66 min |
| Aug 6, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union, York | 74 min |
| Aug 6, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 71 min |
| Aug 6, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg | 40 min |
| Aug 6, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Elbert, Franklin, Hart | 49 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.