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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2016, 5:52 PM EDT for Buncombe 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 14, 2016, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2016, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Buncombe County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1515 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 14, 2:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 2:07 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 311 PM EDT THU JUL 14 2016 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-151915- 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- 311 PM EDT THU JUL 14 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 THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. COVERAGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE A BIT HIGHER OVER WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA THAN OVER UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS. ONE OR TWO OF THE STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. ..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. ..WEDNESDAY...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
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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 518 PM EDT THU JUL 14 2016 NCZ052-053-142145- HAYWOOD NC-BUNCOMBE NC- 518 PM EDT THU JUL 14 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL BUNCOMBE AND EAST CENTRAL HAYWOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 545 PM EDT... AT 517 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAYNESVILLE...OR 4 MILES NORTH OF CANTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS TO BE IMPACTED INCLUDE... LEICESTER...ENKA...AND CANTON. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. && LAT...LON 3554 8290 3562 8294 3570 8266 3556 8262 TIME...MOT...LOC 2117Z 256DEG 20KT 3559 8283 LANE
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 5:49 PM EDT, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 1:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 2:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 28 min |
| Jul 14, 2:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 15 min |
| Jul 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 17 min |
| Jul 14, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 27 min |
| Jul 14, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Swain | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 29 min |
| Jul 14, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 13 min |
| Jul 14, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Yancey | 21 min |
| Jul 14, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 15 min |
| Jul 14, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 8:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 31 min |
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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.