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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2019, 5:36 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
- Aug 3, 2019, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2019, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 326 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Aug 3, 2:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:36 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 8:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 33 min |
| Aug 2, 8:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 9:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 34 min |
Nearby
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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.