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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 16, 2018Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2018, 3:12 PM EDT for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2018, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2018, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 235 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1867 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 483 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 2:41 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:41 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 5:43 AM EDT, 9 hours 29 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
543 AM EDT Sat Jun 16 2018

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-NCZ033-035-036-048>053-056-058-059-062>065-
068>070-501>510-SCZ001>008-010-170945-
Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Avery-Alexander-Iredell-
Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe-Catawba-Graham-
Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania-Henderson-
Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-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-Anderson-
543 AM EDT Sat Jun 16 2018

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont
North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight.

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop across
the area this afternoon and evening. While the main threats will be
from occasional cloud-to-ground lightning and locally heavy
rainfall, an isolated severe storm or two could produce brief
damaging winds and perhaps large hail.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday.

..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.
..Friday...No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

None.

GAZ029-NCZ037-057-071-072-082-SCZ009-011>014-019-170945-
Elbert-Davie-Rowan-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union-York-Abbeville-Laurens-
Chester-Greenwood-
543 AM EDT Sat Jun 16 2018

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont
North Carolina and upstate South Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight.

Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop across
the area this afternoon and evening. While the main threats will be
from occasional cloud-to-ground lightning and locally heavy
rainfall, an isolated severe storm or two could produce brief
damaging winds and perhaps large hail.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday.

..Sunday...No hazardous weather is expected at this time.
..Monday...Excessive heat possible. Heat Index values will reach
100 to 105 degrees.
..Tuesday...Excessive heat possible. Heat Index values will reach
100 to 105 degrees.
..Wednesday...Excessive heat possible. Heat Index values will reach
100 to 105 degrees.
..Thursday...No hazardous weather is expected at this time.
..Friday...No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

None.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:22 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:37 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:57 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 2:59 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:59 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 3:00 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 8:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	31 min
Jun 16, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	37 min
Jun 16, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	50 min
Jun 16, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Macon	43 min
Jun 16, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	23 min
Jun 16, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	37 min
Jun 16, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	31 min
Jun 16, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	28 min
Jun 16, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	47 min
Jun 16, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	36 min
Jun 16, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Pickens	41 min
Jun 16, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	31 min
Jun 16, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	27 min
Jun 16, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	30 min
Jun 16, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	29 min
Jun 16, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	24 min
Jun 16, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	24 min
Jun 16, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	25 min
Jun 16, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	25 min
Jun 16, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham, Rabun	41 min
Jun 16, 2:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	28 min
Jun 16, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2018 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2018

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.