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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 8, 2019Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Apr 8, 2019, 7:21 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2019, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2019, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 233 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 8, 5:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 5:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 8, 3:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 8, 5:03 PM EDT, 2 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 5:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 8, 7:21 PM EDT, 0 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
Apr 8, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	51 min
Apr 8, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	45 min
Apr 8, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	35 min
Apr 8, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	46 min
Apr 8, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Rowan	45 min
Apr 8, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	47 min
Apr 8, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	24 min
Apr 8, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	31 min
Apr 8, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Rowan	28 min
Apr 8, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	34 min
Apr 8, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Union	45 min
Apr 8, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	28 min
Apr 8, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	45 min
Apr 8, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Union	42 min
Apr 8, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	31 min
Apr 7, 10:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	31 min
Apr 8, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson	49 min
Apr 8, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	40 min
Apr 8, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	41 min
Apr 8, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	36 min
Apr 8, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	43 min
Apr 8, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, York	32 min
Apr 8, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	40 min
Apr 8, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	44 min
Apr 8, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	39 min
Apr 8, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	43 min
Apr 8, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, York	50 min
Apr 8, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	37 min
Apr 8, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	45 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2019 Every special weather statement 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.