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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 13, 2019Macon County, North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2019, 9:34 PM EDT for Macon County, North Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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: Aug 13, 2019, 9:34 PM EDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2019, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Macon County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2333 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1400 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.4

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 13, 4:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 4:53 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 13, 7:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 5:28 PM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 5:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 7:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham, Swain	46 min
Aug 13, 9:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	35 min
Aug 13, 9:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Swain	33 min
Aug 13, 9:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	31 min
Aug 13, 10:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey	34 min
Aug 13, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	31 min
Aug 13, 11:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	26 min
Aug 13, 11:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	25 min
Aug 13, 11:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	44 min
Aug 14, 12:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	35 min
Aug 14, 12:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	31 min
Aug 14, 12:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln	33 min
Aug 14, 12:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	35 min
Aug 14, 1:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Rowan	33 min
Aug 14, 1:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln	28 min
Aug 14, 1:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	31 min
Aug 14, 2:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	29 min
Aug 14, 2:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	33 min
Aug 14, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	26 min
Aug 14, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	31 min
Aug 14, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	34 min
Aug 14, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	47 min
Aug 14, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	48 min
Aug 14, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	51 min
Aug 14, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	48 min
Aug 14, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	29 min
Aug 13, 10:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	39 min
Aug 13, 10:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	22 min
Aug 13, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	31 min
Aug 13, 11:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	35 min
Aug 13, 11:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	31 min
Aug 13, 11:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	23 min
Aug 13, 11:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	36 min
Aug 13, 11:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	32 min
Aug 14, 12:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee, Laurens, Spartanburg	33 min
Aug 14, 12:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union	50 min
Aug 14, 12:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens, Spartanburg, Union	41 min
Aug 14, 1:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	26 min
Aug 14, 1:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee, Union	25 min
Aug 14, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	51 min
Aug 14, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	41 min
Aug 14, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	38 min
Aug 14, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	46 min
Aug 14, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	41 min
Aug 14, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	41 min
Aug 14, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	43 min
Aug 14, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	50 min
Aug 14, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	43 min
Aug 13, 11:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	34 min
Aug 14, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Stephens	38 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2019 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2019 Every 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.