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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 157, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2016, 5:49 PM EDT for York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
- Jul 15, 2016, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1647 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 15, 2:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 2:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 313 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-161915- 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 FRI JUL 15 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING BEFORE GRADUALLY DISSIPATING OVERNIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS BEING THE PRIMARY THREAT. ANY HAIL PRODUCED WILL BE MAINLY LESS THAN QUARTER SIZE. ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .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... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...OR FLASH FLOODING TO OUR OFFICE. GERAPETRITIS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 15, 4:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
508 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016
NCZ071-152130-
MECKLENBURG NC-
508 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT EAST CENTRAL MECKLENBURG COUNTY
UNTIL 530 PM EDT...
AT 507 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES EAST OF UPTOWN CHARLOTTE...OR NEAR MINT HILL...MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH.
LOCATIONS TO BE IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MINT HILL AND EAST CHARLOTTE.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
LAT...LON 3516 8061 3517 8071 3524 8074 3526 8065
3522 8057 3519 8057
TIME...MOT...LOC 2107Z 263DEG 11KT 3522 8065
LANESpecial weather statement, Jul 15, 5:29 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
529 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016
SCZ013-152145-
UNION SC-
529 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT EAST CENTRAL UNION COUNTY UNTIL
545 PM EDT...
AT 529 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8
MILES EAST OF UNION...OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MONARCH MILL...MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.
LOCATIONS TO BE IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MONARCH MILL AND SANTUC.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
LAT...LON 3464 8160 3471 8161 3473 8148 3473 8146
3471 8145 3468 8145 3465 8144 3463 8143
TIME...MOT...LOC 2129Z 258DEG 17KT 3468 8149
LANESpecial weather statement, Jul 15, 5:31 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
531 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016
SCZ009-152145-
YORK SC-
531 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN YORK COUNTY UNTIL
545 PM EDT...
AT 531 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9
MILES WEST OF YORK...OR NEAR HICKORY GROVE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
LOCATIONS TO BE IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHARON...HICKORY GROVE AND SMYRNA.
HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.
LAT...LON 3493 8125 3495 8149 3497 8149 3498 8148
3501 8148 3503 8149 3505 8147 3505 8141
3506 8140 3509 8129
TIME...MOT...LOC 2131Z 258DEG 16KT 3500 8140
LANESpecial weather statement, Jul 15, 5:46 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 546 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016 NCZ072-152200- CABARRUS NC- 546 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL CABARRUS COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM EDT... AT 546 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOWNTOWN CONCORD...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LOCATIONS TO BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... DOWNTOWN CONCORD AND MT PLEASANT. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. LAT...LON 3527 8045 3529 8058 3539 8061 3546 8032 TIME...MOT...LOC 2146Z 260DEG 14KT 3534 8052 LANE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 10:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 12:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 31 min |
| Jul 15, 1:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 24 min |
| Jul 15, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Stanly | 25 min |
| Jul 15, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 22 min |
| Jul 15, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 17 min |
| Jul 15, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 18 min |
| Jul 15, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 22 min |
| Jul 15, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 14 min |
| Jul 15, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 6:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Mecklenburg | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 7:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Union | 111 min |
| Jul 15, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 35 min |
| Jul 15, 1:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 33 min |
| Jul 15, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 27 min |
| Jul 15, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 20 min |
| Jul 15, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 25 min |
| Jul 15, 5:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 16 min |
| Jul 15, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 14 min |
| Jul 15, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 33 min |
| Jul 15, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 6:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | York | 111 min |
| Jul 15, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 32 min |
| Jul 15, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 28 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.