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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 23, 2019Henderson County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 23, 2019, 2:21 PM EDT for Henderson 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
Jun 23, 2019, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2019, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Henderson County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 273 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 2019-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 189 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 2019-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 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
189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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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 Jun 22, 7:43 PM EDT, 18 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 7:43 PM EDT, 18 hours 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 12:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon34 min
Jun 23, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson, Transylvania37 min
Jun 22, 9:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens47 min
Jun 22, 10:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens57 min
Jun 22, 11:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens55 min
Jun 22, 11:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood32 min
Jun 23, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville26 min
Jun 23, 2:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson24 min
Jun 23, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville29 min
Jun 23, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville33 min
Jun 23, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAbbeville, Greenwood, Laurens38 min
Jun 23, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood27 min
Jun 22, 10:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPFranklin, Hart, Stephens52 min
Jun 22, 11:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPElbert, Hart30 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2019Every 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.