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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 1, 2016Oconee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2016, 1:49 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 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: Jun 1, 2016, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2016, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Oconee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -116 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1425 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Jun 1, 10:43 AM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 10:43 AM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 4:37 AM EDT, 9 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
437 AM EDT WED JUN 1 2016

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-020845-
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-
437 AM EDT WED JUN 1 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA.
COVERAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST OVER THE MOUNTAINS
AND FOOTHILLS. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE OCCASIONAL
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES...GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY
RAINFALL. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE...PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS
AND HAIL AS LARGE AS QUARTERS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY.

..THURSDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..FRIDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..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.

.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, Jun 1, 12:52 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 1, 1:49 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	23 min
Jun 1, 1:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Swain	23 min
Jun 1, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	35 min
Jun 1, 1:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	48 min
Jun 1, 2:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	35 min
Jun 1, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	31 min
Jun 1, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	47 min
Jun 1, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Caldwell	52 min
Jun 1, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	25 min
Jun 1, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	35 min
Jun 1, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	24 min
Jun 1, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	24 min
Jun 1, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	30 min
Jun 1, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	52 min
Jun 1, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	27 min
Jun 1, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	29 min
Jun 1, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	31 min
Jun 1, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	26 min
Jun 1, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	47 min
Jun 1, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	27 min
Jun 1, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	48 min
Jun 1, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	29 min
Jun 1, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	30 min
Jun 1, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	28 min
Jun 1, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	31 min
Jun 1, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	45 min
Jun 1, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin	25 min
Jun 1, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	29 min
Jun 1, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	34 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.