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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Oct 4, 2015, 4:21 AM EDT for Laurens County, Union County, South Carolina. It was in force for 99 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
- Oct 4, 2015, 4:21 AM EDT (08:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2015, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 99 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Counties Laurens County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 428 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 468 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 Oct 3, 7:54 PM EDT, 8 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 7:54 PM EDT, 8 hours 27 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 3, 3:13 PM EDT, 13 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 313 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-041915- 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- 313 PM EDT SAT OCT 3 2015 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT MONDAY... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ..SUNDAY...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLASH FLOODING AND HIGH WINDS LIKELY. SEE THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND WIND ADVISORY FOR DETAILS. ..MONDAY...HEAVY RAIN WITH FLASH FLOODING AND HIGH WINDS LIKELY. SEE THE LATEST FLASH FLOOD WATCH AND WIND ADVISORY FOR DETAILS. ..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. ..FRIDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 8:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson | 4 hr |
| Oct 3, 9:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 15 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 10:27 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe | 12 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 2:21 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 3:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 3:36 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 3:37 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg, Union | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 4:38 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 5:08 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens | 2 hr |
| Oct 4, 6:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Spartanburg, Union | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 6:33 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 7:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 109 min |
| Oct 4, 8:33 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 9:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Spartanburg, Union | 118 min |
| Oct 4, 9:28 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 9:36 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 5:51 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Hart | 114 min |
| Oct 4, 6:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Elbert | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 8:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Franklin, Stephens | 3 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2015Every 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.