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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 9, 2019Jackson County, Macon County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Apr 9, 2019, 5:13 PM EDT for Jackson County, Macon County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 9, 2019, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 9, 2019, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 241 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 2019-04-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 473 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 2019-04-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
473 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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, 23 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 8, 5:15 PM EDT, 23 hours 58 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 9, 2:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania36 min
Apr 9, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania31 min
Apr 9, 2:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania31 min
Apr 9, 3:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon36 min
Apr 9, 3:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania33 min
Apr 9, 3:19 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPTransylvania4 hr
Apr 9, 3:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell36 min
Apr 9, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke35 min
Apr 9, 3:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania29 min
Apr 9, 3:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon25 min
Apr 9, 3:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk36 min
Apr 9, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg31 min
Apr 9, 3:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLincoln29 min
Apr 9, 3:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania27 min
Apr 9, 3:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell35 min
Apr 9, 3:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania31 min
Apr 9, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke28 min
Apr 9, 4:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg31 min
Apr 9, 4:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford33 min
Apr 9, 4:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg23 min
Apr 9, 4:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland36 min
Apr 9, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk35 min
Apr 9, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg33 min
Apr 9, 12:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAnderson, Oconee46 min
Apr 9, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee, Pickens17 min
Apr 9, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens30 min
Apr 9, 1:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee31 min
Apr 9, 1:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens33 min
Apr 9, 12:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPFranklin, Stephens49 min
Apr 9, 1:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun49 min
Apr 9, 2:24 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun36 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.