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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 241, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2019, 4:19 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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 22, 2019, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2019, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 479 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 3:31 PM EDT, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 3:31 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 402 PM EDT Thu Aug 22 2019 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065- 068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-232015- Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Avery-Alexander- Iredell-Davie-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe-Catawba- Rowan-Graham-Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania- Henderson-Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union- Caldwell Mountains-Greater Caldwell-Burke Mountains-Greater Burke- McDowell Mountains-Eastern McDowell-Rutherford Mountains- Greater Rutherford-Polk Mountains-Eastern Polk-Oconee Mountains- Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains-Greater Oconee- Greater Pickens-Greater Greenville-Spartanburg-Cherokee-York- Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens-Chester-Greenwood- 402 PM EDT Thu Aug 22 2019 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Scattered thunderstorms will continue into early evening. Any of these thunderstorms will have the potential to produce cloud-to- ground lightning strikes, locally heavy rainfall, and gusty winds. A few thunderstorms could become severe, with damaging wind gusts or quarter size hail, especially along and east of the Interstate 77 corridor. Localized flooding will be possible in any areas affected by multiple thunderstorms. Isolated thunderstorms may continue into the overnight hours. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Abundant moisture will set up over the region on Friday ahead of a cold front approaching from the north. Instability in the warm and moist air ahead of the front may contribute to locally excessive rainfall, mainly during the afternoon and evening hours on Friday. Flooding of low-lying and poor drainage areas will be possible at any locations repeatedly affected by showers and thunderstorms. Small streams could approach bankfull where heavy rain falls. These conditions will linger into Saturday as the front slowly moves south across the area. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are requested to forward any reports of large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, or flash flooding to our office.
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Special weather statement, Aug 22, 3:32 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford | 49 min |
| Aug 22, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Iredell | 40 min |
| Aug 22, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln and 2 more | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 28 min |
| Aug 22, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Iredell | 31 min |
| Aug 22, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 15 min |
| Aug 22, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 13 min |
| Aug 22, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 35 min |
| Aug 22, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 22 min |
| Aug 22, 4:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 20 min |
| Aug 22, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 38 min |
| Aug 22, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mecklenburg | 24 min |
| Aug 22, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 36 min |
| Aug 22, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 24 min |
| Aug 22, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 23 min |
| Aug 22, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 27 min |
| Aug 22, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 27 min |
| Aug 22, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 28 min |
| Aug 22, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 31 min |
| Aug 22, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 30 min |
| Aug 22, 7:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 32 min |
| Aug 22, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee | 34 min |
| Aug 22, 7:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 24 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.