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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 15, 2015, 2:21 PM EDT for McDowell County, North 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 15, 2015, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2015, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County McDowell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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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</html>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 14, 7:55 PM EDT, 18 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 7:55 PM EDT, 18 hours 26 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 3:39 PM EDT, 22 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 339 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 2015 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>008-010-151945- 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-ANDERSON- 339 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 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. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. COVERAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS. ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS WILL BE CAPABLE OF DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. ISOLATED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE UNDER ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT PERSIST IN ONE LOCATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ..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. ..THURSDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. SCZ009-011>014-019-151945- YORK-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-UNION-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 339 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE LOWER PIEDMONT OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ..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. ..THURSDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 32 min |
| Aug 15, 2:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 36 min |
| Aug 15, 2:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Watauga | 33 min |
| Aug 15, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 13 min |
| Aug 15, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 22 min |
| Aug 15, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 16 min |
| Aug 15, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 14 min |
| Aug 15, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 26 min |
| Aug 15, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 19 min |
| Aug 15, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 17 min |
| Aug 15, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 24 min |
| Aug 15, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 21 min |
| Aug 15, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 28 min |
| Aug 15, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Stanly | 25 min |
| Aug 15, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 21 min |
| Aug 15, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 27 min |
| Aug 15, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 23 min |
| Aug 15, 7:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 33 min |
| Aug 15, 7:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Rowan | 110 min |
| Aug 15, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 15 min |
| Aug 15, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 23 min |
| Aug 15, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 32 min |
| Aug 15, 6:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville | 61 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.