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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 19, 2019Oconee County, South Carolina; Franklin County, Hart County, Stephens County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2019, 6:18 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina; Franklin County, Hart County, Stephens County, Georgia. It was in force for 30 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 19, 2019, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2019, 6:48 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, GA, Hart County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Oconee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 2019-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 932 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 2019-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
932 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1090 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
4 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, 8:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk31 min
Jul 18, 8:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk34 min
Jul 19, 2:55 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryGSPCabarrus, Catawba, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and 3 more27 hr
Jul 19, 5:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPClay38 min
Jul 19, 5:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison48 min
Jul 19, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Madison51 min
Jul 19, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham37 min
Jul 19, 6:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham, Swain59 min
Jul 19, 4:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson32 min
Jul 19, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville45 min
Jul 19, 6:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee33 min
Jul 19, 7:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee40 min
Jul 19, 7:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2019Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.