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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 2019, 10:32 PM EDT for Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 13 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 20, 2019, 10:32 PM EDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2019, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Greenwood County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 20, 10:14 PM EDT, 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 20, 10:14 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 11:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 12:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 57 min |
| Aug 21, 1:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 74 min |
| Aug 21, 2:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Union | 62 min |
| Aug 21, 3:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 25 min |
| Aug 21, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 25 min |
| Aug 21, 2:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 28 min |
| Aug 21, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 43 min |
| Aug 21, 2:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson | 50 min |
| Aug 21, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 42 min |
| Aug 21, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Swain | 33 min |
| Aug 21, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 28 min |
| Aug 21, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell, Rutherford | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 27 min |
| Aug 21, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 25 min |
| Aug 21, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 37 min |
| Aug 21, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 4:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 23 min |
| Aug 21, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 29 min |
| Aug 21, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 26 min |
| Aug 21, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 38 min |
| Aug 21, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander | 65 min |
| Aug 21, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 30 min |
| Aug 21, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 36 min |
| Aug 21, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Catawba | 25 min |
| Aug 21, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 58 min |
| Aug 21, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 34 min |
| Aug 21, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Rowan | 73 min |
| Aug 21, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 24 min |
| Aug 21, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 17 min |
| Aug 21, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Stanly | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 10:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 22 min |
| Aug 20, 11:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 35 min |
| Aug 20, 11:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenwood | 2 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.