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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2020, 2:33 PM EDT for Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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 14, 2020, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2020, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Madison County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 14, 2:16 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:16 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 8:35 AM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 835 AM EDT Sun Jun 14 2020 GAZ010-017-NCZ033-048>053-058-059-062>065-501-503-505-507-509- SCZ001>003-151245- Rabun-Habersham-Avery-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe- Graham-Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania- Henderson-Caldwell Mountains-Burke Mountains-McDowell Mountains- Rutherford Mountains-Polk Mountains-Oconee Mountains- Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains- 835 AM EDT Sun Jun 14 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for the mountains of northeast Georgia, western North Carolina, and Upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Scattered to numerous thunderstorms will develop across the mountains this afternoon and evening. Cloud to ground lightning and locally heavy rainfall can be expected with any thunderstorms. Some of these storms may also produce gusty winds and small hail, and a few could become severe, with damaging wind gusts the main threat. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-056-057-068>072-082-502-504-506-508- 510-SCZ004>014-019-151245- Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Alexander-Iredell-Davie-Catawba-Rowan- Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union NC- Greater Caldwell-Greater Burke-Eastern McDowell-Greater Rutherford- Eastern Polk-Greater Oconee-Greater Pickens-Greater Greenville- Spartanburg-Cherokee-York-Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens-Union SC- Chester-Greenwood- 835 AM EDT Sun Jun 14 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, the foothills and Piedmont of western North Carolina, and Upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are expected across the region this afternoon and evening. Cloud to ground lightning and locally heavy rainfall will be the primary threat with any thunderstorms, and a few could produce gusty winds. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Jackson | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 42 min |
| Jun 14, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Pickens | 37 min |
| Jun 14, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 24 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.