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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 6, 2015Chester County, Union County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2015, 1:21 PM EDT for Chester County, Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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 6, 2015, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 2015, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Chester County, SC, Union County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 248 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1399 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 6, 11:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 11:35 AM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 4:14 AM EDT, 9 hours 7 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
414 AM EDT THU AUG 6 2015

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-070815-
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-
414 AM EDT THU AUG 6 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. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS
COULD BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

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

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE.

07

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 6, 11:07 AM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 11:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 12:56 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:16 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
116 PM EDT THU AUG 6 2015

SCZ011-061745-
ABBEVILLE SC-
116 PM EDT THU AUG 6 2015

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ABBEVILLE
COUNTY UNTIL 145 PM EDT...

AT 116 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13
MILES WEST OF ABBEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ABBEVILLE...CALHOUN FALLS...LOWNDESVILLE AND LAKE RUSSELL.

LAT...LON 3407 8264 3409 8264 3410 8266 3413 8267
      3414 8269 3422 8267 3419 8231 3407 8235
      3406 8236 3406 8244 3407 8250 3407 8253
      3403 8257
TIME...MOT...LOC 1716Z 284DEG 15KT 3412 8260

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:21 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
121 PM EDT THU AUG 6 2015

SCZ013-014-061745-
UNION SC-CHESTER SC-
121 PM EDT THU AUG 6 2015

...CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN UNION
AND WESTERN CHESTER COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM EDT...

AT 121 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF A CLUSTER
OF THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
CHESTER TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF UNION...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL
RATES OF UP TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
UNION...CHESTER...MONARCH MILL...CARLISLE...CHESTER STATE PARK...ROSE
HILL STATE PARK...SANTUC...LEEDS AND SEDALIA.

LAT...LON 3457 8179 3476 8159 3479 8099 3456 8126
      3457 8142 3451 8143
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 262DEG 18KT 3473 8129 3453 8153

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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
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, 10:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	53 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, 1:45 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

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South 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.