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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 22, 2019Laurens County, Union County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2019, 4:34 PM EDT for Laurens County, Union County, South 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: Jun 22, 2019, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Laurens County, SC, Union County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 22, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 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 22, 2:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 2:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 22, 3:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:40 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:45 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:13 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 4:19 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:28 PM EDT, 6 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
Jun 21, 11:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain	63 min
Jun 22, 12:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Madison, Yancey	44 min
Jun 22, 12:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Transylvania	52 min
Jun 22, 1:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Henderson, McDowell, Mitchell and 3 more	60 min
Jun 22, 2:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln	42 min
Jun 22, 3:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union	48 min
Jun 22, 11:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Swain	47 min
Jun 22, 12:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	45 min
Jun 22, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	27 min
Jun 22, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood, Jackson	38 min
Jun 22, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Jackson, Madison, Swain, Yancey	45 min
Jun 22, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke, McDowell	24 min
Jun 22, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Swain, Yancey	48 min
Jun 22, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	42 min
Jun 22, 2:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Swain	3 hr
Jun 22, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	45 min
Jun 22, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln	52 min
Jun 22, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	47 min
Jun 22, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	49 min
Jun 22, 12:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	57 min
Jun 22, 1:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	66 min
Jun 22, 1:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	62 min
Jun 22, 1:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	48 min
Jun 22, 2:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union	29 min
Jun 22, 2:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens	58 min
Jun 22, 3:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester, Laurens, Union	29 min
Jun 22, 3:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens, Union	19 min
Jun 22, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Greenville, Pickens, Spartanburg	40 min
Jun 22, 3:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Chester, Spartanburg, Union, York	48 min
Jun 22, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester, Union, York	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.