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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 6, 2018Haywood County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2018, 1:34 PM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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 6, 2018, 1:34 PM EDT (17:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2018, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Haywood County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 273 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 12:00Z on 2018-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1948 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 12:00Z on 2018-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1948 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 Aug 6, 10:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 10:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 4:59 AM EDT, 8 hours 35 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
459 AM EDT Mon Aug 6 2018

NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501-503-505-507-509-070900-
Avery-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe-Graham-
Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania-Henderson-
Caldwell Mountains-Burke Mountains-McDowell Mountains-
Rutherford Mountains-Polk Mountains-
459 AM EDT Mon Aug 6 2018

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the mountains of western North
Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Numerous showers and thunderstorms will develop across the North
Carolina mountains this afternoon and evening. Any of these
thunderstorms will have the potential to produce cloud-to-ground
lightning strikes, locally heavy rainfall, and briefly gusty winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Thunderstorm coverage will increase across the area through the week.
The daily thunderstorms will have the greatest coverage during the
afternoon and evening hours and may produce cloud-to-ground
lightning, heavy rainfall, and gusty winds.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

None.

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-
506-508-510-SCZ001>014-019-070900-
Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Alexander-Iredell-
Davie-Catawba-Rowan-Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-
Union-Greater Caldwell-Greater Burke-Eastern McDowell-
Greater Rutherford-Eastern Polk-Oconee Mountains-Pickens Mountains-
Greenville Mountains-Greater Oconee-Greater Pickens-
Greater Greenville-Spartanburg-Cherokee-York-Anderson-Abbeville-
Laurens-Chester-Greenwood-
459 AM EDT Mon Aug 6 2018

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, the
foothills and piedmont of western North Carolina, and Upstate South
Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop across the region
this afternoon and evening. Any of these thunderstorms will have the
potential to produce cloud-to-ground lightning strikes, locally
heavy rainfall, and briefly gusty winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

Thunderstorm coverage will increase across the area through the week.
The daily thunderstorms will have the greatest coverage during the
afternoon and evening hours and may produce cloud-to-ground
lightning, heavy rainfall, and gusty winds.

Additionally, heat index values will range from 95 to 100 degrees
during the afternoon hours on Tuesday and Wednesday.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

None.

HG

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:32 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 1:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke28 min
Aug 6, 1:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania65 min
Aug 6, 1:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander, Caldwell62 min
Aug 6, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander, Caldwell54 min
Aug 6, 2:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson29 min
Aug 6, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander25 min
Aug 6, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson44 min
Aug 6, 3:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell25 min
Aug 6, 3:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba36 min
Aug 6, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk37 min
Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania50 min
Aug 6, 4:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLincoln28 min
Aug 6, 4:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg35 min
Aug 6, 4:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg33 min
Aug 6, 5:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg36 min
Aug 6, 5:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg30 min
Aug 6, 6:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland28 min
Aug 6, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion34 min
Aug 6, 6:19 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union116 min
Aug 6, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville29 min
Aug 6, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee42 min
Aug 6, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee34 min
Aug 6, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson, Oconee, Pickens39 min
Aug 6, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Laurens43 min
Aug 6, 5:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg, Union43 min
Aug 6, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Oconee46 min
Aug 6, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCherokee, Chester, Union, York38 min
Aug 6, 6:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester32 min
Aug 6, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester, Union52 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.