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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2016, 4:11 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 6, 2016, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Cleveland County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted.
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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 6, 2:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:42 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 12:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1241 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2016 GAZ029-SCZ011-019-061930- ELBERT-ABBEVILLE-GREENWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ELBERTON...FORTSONIA...MIDDLETON... RUCKERSVILLE...ABBEVILLE...CALHOUN FALLS...WARE SHOALS... NINETY SIX 1241 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2016 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL FROM ELBERTON TO GREENWOOD THIS AFTERNOON... A NEARLY STATIONARY BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAS SET UP FROM JUST SOUTH OF ELBERTON GEORGIA TO NEAR GREENWOOD SOUTH CAROLINA. THE HEAVIEST SHOWERS IN THIS BAND ARE PRODUCING RAINFALL AT RATES OF ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH PER HOUR. LOCAL ONE TO TWO INCH RAINFALL TOTALS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD RESULT. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR HIGH WATER CONDITIONS IN LOW LYING AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN. HG
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 4:11 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | GSP | Union | 8 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 38 min |
| Jun 6, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 28 min |
| Jun 6, 6:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 35 min |
| Jun 6, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 24 min |
| Jun 6, 3:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 4:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 26 min |
| Jun 6, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 25 min |
| Jun 6, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 29 min |
| Jun 6, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 37 min |
| Jun 6, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Stephens | 24 min |
| Jun 6, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Hart | 30 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.