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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2016, 12:54 PM EDT for Avery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 2, 2016, 12:54 PM EDT (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2016, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Avery County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 506 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Aug 2, 9:47 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 9:47 AM EDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 4:54 AM EDT, 8 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 454 AM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-030900- 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- 454 AM EDT TUE AUG 2 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 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING DAMAGING WINDS. ADDITIONALLY...ELEVATED MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL PRESENT THE THREAT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AMONGST ANY OF THE STRONGER STORMS LEADING TO THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ..WEDNESDAY...HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE ON WEDNESDAY LEADING TO AN ENHANCED THREAT OF HEAVY RAINFALL THAT COULD LEAD TO ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING. THIS THREAT OVERSPREADS THE ENTIRE REGION...HOWEVER THE GREATEST CHANCES FOR MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RESIDE ALONG THE BLUE RIDGE WHERE EASTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW IS EXPECTED. ..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. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE. CDG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 12:54 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1254 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016
NCZ033-501-021745-
CALDWELL MOUNTAINS NC-AVERY NC-
1254 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 2016
...A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN
CALDWELL AND SOUTHEASTERN AVERY COUNTIES UNTIL 145 PM EDT...
AT 1253 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A THUNDERSTORM WITH
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWLAND...OR 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF B.R. PARKWAY-LINVILLE FALLS TO GRANDFATHER. THIS STORM
WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.
LOCATIONS TO BE IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN...GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN STATE PARK...B.R.
PARKWAY-LINVILLE FALLS TO GRANDFATHER...UPTON...EDGEMONT...GLOBE AND
COLLETTSVILLE.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL RATES UP TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR 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 3611 8181 3612 8175 3608 8156 3593 8166
3589 8173 3593 8175 3593 8178 3595 8178
3595 8180 3597 8182 3598 8187 3600 8189
TIME...MOT...LOC 1653Z 297DEG 3KT 3602 8178
ARKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell, Rutherford | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 2:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 29 min |
| Aug 2, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 3:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 26 min |
| Aug 2, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lancaster | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 9:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham | 28 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.