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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 12, 2016Anderson County, Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2016, 4:43 PM EDT for Anderson County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 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
Apr 12, 2016, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 2016, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Anderson County, SC, Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 295 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 12:00Z on 2016-04-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 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 12:00Z on 2016-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 198 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
198 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 2:49 PM EDTFrost AdvisoryGSPAvery, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey18 hr
Apr 12, 3:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens40 min
Apr 12, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson, Pickens51 min
Apr 12, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson44 min
Apr 12, 6:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion31 min
Apr 12, 7:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens31 min
Apr 12, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPStephens34 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.