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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 8:35 AM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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 5, 2016, 8:35 AM EDT (12:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 9:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:38 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 5, 7:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 7:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 8:06 AM EDT, 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 806 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 2016 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-061215- 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- 806 AM EDT FRI AUG 5 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 DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRIMARY THREATS WITH ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. ISOLATED FLOODING MAY DEVELOP IN ANY LOCATIONS REPEATEDLY AFFECTED BY THUNDERSTORMS...OR WHERE HEAVY RAIN FALLS ON ALREADY SATURATED GROUND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. ..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. ..THURSDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 8:35 AM 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Swain | 115 min |
| Aug 4, 9:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Swain | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 9:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Swain | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 12:04 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson | 116 min |
| Aug 5, 1:48 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Swain | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 9:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Rutherford | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 10:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Elbert, Hart | 116 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.