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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 3, 2016McDowell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2016, 4:07 PM EDT for McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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: Jul 3, 2016, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2016, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County McDowell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 Jul 3, 2:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 2:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 3:09 PM EDT, 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 4:07 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
407 PM EDT SUN JUL 3 2016

NCZ505-506-032030-
MCDOWELL MOUNTAINS NC-EASTERN MCDOWELL NC-
407 PM EDT SUN JUL 3 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL MCDOWELL COUNTY UNTIL
430 PM EDT...

AT 406 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4
MILES WEST OF MARION...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS TO BE IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARION...LAKE JAMES...PLEASANT GARDENS AND NEBO.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY FLOOD AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE...SUCH AS
DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS MAY ALSO RISE RAPIDLY. SEEK
HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS
FLOODED ROADS.

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LAT...LON 3578 8195 3565 8187 3562 8214 3569 8219
      3580 8198
TIME...MOT...LOC 2006Z 247DEG 14KT 3568 8209

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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
Jul 2, 11:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	46 min
Jul 3, 12:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Rowan	32 min
Jul 3, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	26 min
Jul 3, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	44 min
Jul 3, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	31 min
Jul 3, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	36 min
Jul 3, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	52 min
Jul 3, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	45 min
Jul 3, 7:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	37 min
Jul 3, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	43 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.