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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 28, 2017Catawba County, Lincoln County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2017, 5:46 PM EDT for Catawba County, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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
May 28, 2017, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 2017, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Catawba County, NC, Lincoln County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 308 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2017-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 210 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2017-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-415 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1333 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 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 May 28, 5:14 PM EDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 5:14 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 5:46 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 9:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery56 min
May 27, 10:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie59 min
May 27, 10:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPDavie, Iredell73 min
May 27, 10:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery47 min
May 27, 10:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain50 min
May 27, 10:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander48 min
May 27, 11:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMitchell38 min
May 27, 11:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Madison, Transylvania and 1 more53 min
May 27, 11:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson, Macon, Transylvania47 min
May 27, 11:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery, Mitchell34 min
May 27, 11:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery, Burke, Caldwell, Mitchell31 min
May 28, 12:15 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPMitchell, Yancey2 hr
May 28, 12:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford57 min
May 28, 12:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey54 min
May 28, 12:54 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPMitchell, Yancey3 hr
May 28, 12:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, Caldwell, Rutherford59 min
May 28, 1:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland, Rutherford40 min
May 28, 1:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCatawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln55 min
May 28, 1:38 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander52 min
May 28, 2:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan70 min
May 28, 6:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg30 min
May 28, 6:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus29 min
May 28, 7:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg23 min
May 28, 7:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston33 min
May 28, 7:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus25 min
May 28, 12:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee, Pickens64 min
May 28, 12:59 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson31 min
May 28, 1:03 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg57 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.