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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2020, 6:39 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 36 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 28, 2020, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2020, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Chester County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 3:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood, Madison | 25 min |
| Jun 28, 4:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood, Swain | 38 min |
| Jun 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 27 min |
| Jun 28, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 38 min |
| Jun 28, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 50 min |
| Jun 28, 4:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood, Madison, Yancey | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 48 min |
| Jun 28, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 28 min |
| Jun 28, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 31 min |
| Jun 28, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 37 min |
| Jun 28, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee, York | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 34 min |
| Jun 28, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 29 min |
| Jun 28, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg, Union | 33 min |
| Jun 28, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg and 1 more | 51 min |
| Jun 28, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, Union | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, Union | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 34 min |
| Jun 28, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 19 min |
| Jun 28, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 14 min |
| Jun 28, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 49 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.