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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 2, 2018Greenville County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2018, 3:06 PM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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: Aug 2, 2018, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2018, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Greenville County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 258 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: 243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 Aug 2, 2:46 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:46 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 5:14 AM EDT, 9 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 1:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:14 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:30 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:56 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:06 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
Aug 1, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Union	36 min
Aug 1, 9:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	29 min
Aug 2, 10:31 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	3 days
Aug 2, 11:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	43 min
Aug 2, 11:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	45 min
Aug 2, 11:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	46 min
Aug 2, 12:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	48 min
Aug 2, 12:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	GSP	Transylvania	9 hr
Aug 2, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	65 min
Aug 2, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	31 min
Aug 2, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell	49 min
Aug 2, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	51 min
Aug 2, 4:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Union	2 hr
Aug 2, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	49 min
Aug 2, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	37 min
Aug 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	5 hr
Aug 2, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln	49 min
Aug 2, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	51 min
Aug 2, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln	39 min
Aug 2, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	46 min
Aug 2, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan	39 min
Aug 2, 6:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Gaston	6 hr
Aug 2, 6:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	110 min
Aug 2, 6:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	6 hr
Aug 2, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan	47 min
Aug 2, 7:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Iredell	6 hr
Aug 2, 7:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Iredell, Mecklenburg	9 hr
Aug 1, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	44 min
Aug 1, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville	52 min
Aug 1, 9:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Abbeville	29 min
Aug 1, 10:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	29 min
Aug 1, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	36 min
Aug 1, 10:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	26 min
Aug 1, 11:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	41 min
Aug 1, 11:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Laurens	22 min
Aug 2, 12:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	44 min
Aug 2, 12:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	42 min
Aug 2, 1:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	38 min
Aug 2, 1:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	48 min
Aug 2, 9:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	2 hr
Aug 2, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	42 min
Aug 2, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	45 min
Aug 2, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	23 min
Aug 2, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	33 min
Aug 2, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	45 min
Aug 1, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	24 min
Aug 1, 9:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin	43 min
Aug 1, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert, Franklin, Hart	48 min

Nearby

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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.