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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 18, 2019Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2019, 3:43 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 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 18, 2019, 3:43 PM EDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2019, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Spartanburg County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:42 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 2019-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 160 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 2019-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 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
160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-141 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 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 18, 2:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk, Rutherford51 min
Jul 18, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk48 min
Jul 18, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg42 min
Jul 18, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion33 min
Jul 18, 7:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson23 min
Jul 18, 12:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee42 min
Jul 18, 1:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee52 min
Jul 18, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens33 min
Jul 18, 2:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson43 min
Jul 18, 2:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville39 min
Jul 18, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Spartanburg42 min
Jul 18, 3:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville39 min
Jul 18, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville45 min
Jul 18, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville43 min
Jul 18, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg48 min
Jul 18, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPUnion20 min
Jul 18, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion37 min
Jul 18, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester25 min
Jul 18, 4:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester37 min
Jul 18, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHabersham30 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.