Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2016, 7:31 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2016, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 5:16 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 49 min |
| Mar 14, 12:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 31 min |
| Mar 14, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 34 min |
| Mar 14, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 47 min |
| Mar 14, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg | 46 min |
| Mar 14, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 50 min |
| Mar 14, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 38 min |
| Mar 14, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 26 min |
| Mar 14, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 50 min |
| Mar 14, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 24 min |
| Mar 14, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.