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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 18, 2019Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2019, 2:29 PM EDT for Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 46 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
Jun 18, 2019, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 2019, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Elbert County, GA, Hart County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 2019-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 776 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 2019-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
776 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 18, 1:57 PM EDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 1:57 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 11:56 AM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:45 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 8:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania32 min
Jun 17, 9:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania33 min
Jun 17, 9:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania49 min
Jun 17, 10:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie26 min
Jun 17, 10:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell34 min
Jun 17, 10:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson25 min
Jun 17, 10:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke35 min
Jun 17, 10:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie, Iredell31 min
Jun 17, 10:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson30 min
Jun 17, 10:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk34 min
Jun 17, 11:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston37 min
Jun 18, 12:43 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan32 min
Jun 18, 1:13 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston32 min
Jun 18, 1:25 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan35 min
Jun 18, 1:47 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston, Lincoln58 min
Jun 18, 2:05 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan40 min
Jun 18, 2:28 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg62 min
Jun 18, 3:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMitchell41 min
Jun 18, 5:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPMitchell, Yancey3 hr
Jun 18, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander45 min
Jun 18, 6:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke41 min
Jun 18, 6:44 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBurke, Caldwell3 hr
Jun 18, 6:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander59 min
Jun 18, 7:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke24 min
Jun 18, 7:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie36 min
Jun 18, 7:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie30 min
Jun 18, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion31 min
Jun 17, 9:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee24 min
Jun 17, 11:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville26 min
Jun 17, 11:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville23 min
Jun 18, 12:15 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg30 min
Jun 18, 1:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson45 min
Jun 18, 7:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville59 min
Jun 17, 8:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHabersham, Stephens37 min
Jun 17, 9:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHabersham, Rabun25 min
Jun 17, 10:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun31 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.