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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2018, 1:40 PM EDT for Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 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, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2018, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Transylvania County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted.
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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 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 10:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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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, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 28 min |
| Aug 6, 1:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 56 min |
| Aug 6, 1:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Caldwell | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Jackson | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 28 min |
| Aug 6, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 35 min |
| Aug 6, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 33 min |
| Aug 6, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 28 min |
| Aug 6, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 6:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 116 min |
| Aug 6, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg, Union | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Oconee | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 32 min |
| Aug 6, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, Union | 52 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.