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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 22, 2018Greenville County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2018, 2:21 PM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 39 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: Jul 22, 2018, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2018, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Greenville County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 370 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 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 Jul 22, 2:16 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:16 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 5:03 AM EDT, 9 hours 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 22, 9:01 AM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 9:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 12:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:39 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:21 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	30 min
Jul 22, 1:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	24 min
Jul 22, 2:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	30 min
Jul 22, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	38 min
Jul 22, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	42 min
Jul 22, 1:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	51 min
Jul 22, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson, McDowell	40 min
Jul 22, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	32 min
Jul 22, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	46 min
Jul 22, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	28 min
Jul 22, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	37 min
Jul 22, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	31 min
Jul 22, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	36 min
Jul 22, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	38 min
Jul 22, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	32 min
Jul 22, 5:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Davie, Iredell	117 min
Jul 22, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	27 min
Jul 22, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	25 min
Jul 22, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	39 min
Jul 22, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	14 min
Jul 22, 6:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Iredell	113 min
Jul 22, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	28 min
Jul 22, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	30 min
Jul 22, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	29 min
Jul 22, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	25 min
Jul 22, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	49 min
Jul 22, 7:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	113 min
Jul 22, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	33 min
Jul 22, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	20 min
Jul 21, 8:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Chester, Spartanburg, Union, York	38 min
Jul 21, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	48 min
Jul 21, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	40 min
Jul 21, 9:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	37 min
Jul 21, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	38 min
Jul 21, 9:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	31 min
Jul 21, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens	48 min
Jul 21, 10:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens	64 min
Jul 21, 10:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	57 min
Jul 21, 11:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	52 min
Jul 22, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	24 min
Jul 22, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	36 min
Jul 22, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	28 min
Jul 22, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	33 min
Jul 22, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	30 min
Jul 22, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union, York	45 min
Jul 22, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	33 min
Jul 22, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	32 min
Jul 21, 10:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Hart	42 min

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Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2018 Every special weather statement 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.