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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 346, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 6, 2018Graham County, Swain County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 6, 2018, 5:26 AM EST for Graham County, Swain County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
Nov 6, 2018, 5:26 AM EST (10:26 UTC)
Expired
Nov 6, 2018, 6:15 AM EST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Graham County, NC, Swain County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:28 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Nov 6, 3:15 AM ESTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2018-11-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 25 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2018-11-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 237 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
25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 5, 8:48 PM ESTDense Fog AdvisoryGSPAlexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 10 more10 hr
Nov 6, 5:13 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham32 min
Nov 6, 5:52 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison23 min
Nov 6, 6:25 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson, Macon50 min
Nov 6, 7:05 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson, Transylvania25 min
Nov 6, 7:31 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania44 min
Nov 6, 9:49 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln56 min
Nov 6, 10:42 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan63 min
Nov 6, 11:22 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus, Union53 min
Nov 6, 12:14 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion46 min
Nov 6, 1:00 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion15 min
Nov 6, 8:10 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson, Greenville, Spartanburg50 min
Nov 6, 9:01 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson, Cherokee, Laurens, Spartanburg44 min
Nov 6, 9:47 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee, Laurens, Union58 min
Nov 6, 10:31 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester, Union, York59 min
Nov 6, 10:39 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens36 min
Nov 6, 11:29 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester61 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.