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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 222, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2018, 2:33 PM EDT for Cleveland County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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
- Jul 6, 2018, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2018, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cleveland County, NC, Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 933 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 6, 2:11 PM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:11 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 540 AM EDT Fri Jul 6 2018 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-070945- 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- 540 AM EDT Fri Jul 6 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Scattered thunderstorms today and tonight will produce cloud-to- ground lightning and locally heavy rainfall. Stronger storms could produce localized flooding and gusty winds. .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. SGL
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 1:51 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 12:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell, Rutherford | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, Polk, Rutherford | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell, Polk, Rutherford | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 1:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Lincoln, Rowan | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell, Yancey | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg, Union | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 4:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 4:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens, Union | 81 min |
| Jul 6, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 23 min |
| Jul 6, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 43 min |
| Jul 6, 12:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 61 min |
| Jul 6, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Stephens | 47 min |
| Jul 6, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 36 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.