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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 6, 2019Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2019, 3:26 PM EDT for Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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
Jul 6, 2019, 3:26 PM EDT (19:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2019, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Henderson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 263 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2019-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 916 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2019-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
916 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 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
Jul 5, 8:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg39 min
Jul 5, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg24 min
Jul 5, 8:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg54 min
Jul 5, 9:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPMecklenburg3 hr
Jul 5, 9:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus, Rowan42 min
Jul 6, 12:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke, Caldwell42 min
Jul 6, 12:31 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBurke119 min
Jul 6, 1:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke47 min
Jul 6, 1:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell42 min
Jul 6, 2:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk44 min
Jul 6, 2:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe19 min
Jul 6, 3:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania26 min
Jul 6, 3:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania26 min
Jul 6, 3:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford25 min
Jul 6, 3:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion27 min
Jul 6, 3:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania38 min
Jul 5, 8:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville29 min
Jul 6, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville25 min
Jul 6, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg32 min
Jul 6, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville33 min
Jul 6, 3:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPStephens16 min
Jul 6, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPStephens27 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.