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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 14, 2016Buncombe County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2016, 1:13 PM EDT for Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 14, 2016, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 2016, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Buncombe County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2016-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1331 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2016-08-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 Aug 14, 12:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 12:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 6:01 AM EDT, 7 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
601 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-151015-
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-
601 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST GEORGIA...PIEDMONT
NORTH CAROLINA...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SOME THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THE STORMS WILL BE SCATTERED ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND
FOOTHILLS...BUT ISOLATED ACROSS THE PIEDMONT AND UPSTATE. THE MAIN
THREAT WILL BE CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD HAVE STRONG WIND GUSTS
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN TREE LIMBS. THE STORMS SHOULD DIMINISH BY
LATE EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

..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.
..FRIDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
..SATURDAY...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

NONE.

PM

In the hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 1:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood23 min
Aug 14, 1:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell30 min
Aug 14, 2:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell30 min
Aug 14, 2:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison24 min
Aug 14, 2:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison34 min
Aug 14, 2:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery26 min
Aug 14, 2:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe23 min
Aug 14, 2:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison28 min
Aug 14, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMadison25 min
Aug 14, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell25 min
Aug 14, 3:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan35 min
Aug 14, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison27 min
Aug 14, 4:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg28 min
Aug 14, 4:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion28 min
Aug 14, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg25 min
Aug 14, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg31 min
Aug 14, 5:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus27 min
Aug 14, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion29 min
Aug 14, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion33 min
Aug 13, 11:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville44 min
Aug 13, 11:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood43 min

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Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016

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.