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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 14, 2016Chester County, Union County, York County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2016, 8:40 PM EDT for Chester County, Union County, York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 65 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, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Mar 14, 2016, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Chester County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2016-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 487 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2016-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 14, 9:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion32 min
Mar 14, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester, York35 min
Mar 14, 8:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens42 min
Mar 14, 9:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester45 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.