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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 10, 2020Burke County, Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2020, 5:47 PM EDT for Burke County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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
Jul 10, 2020, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2020, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Burke County, NC, Rutherford County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2020-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 207 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2020-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 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
207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1030 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 2:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell23 min
Jul 10, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson37 min
Jul 10, 3:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba33 min
Jul 10, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Transylvania23 min
Jul 10, 4:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson27 min
Jul 10, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe34 min
Jul 10, 5:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke25 min
Jul 10, 6:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke37 min
Jul 10, 6:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLincoln27 min
Jul 10, 6:46 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBurke119 min
Jul 10, 7:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell25 min
Jul 10, 7:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGaston28 min
Jul 10, 7:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie, Iredell, Rowan32 min
Jul 10, 7:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg33 min
Jul 10, 4:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens29 min
Jul 10, 4:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee32 min
Jul 10, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee29 min
Jul 10, 5:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson31 min
Jul 10, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg24 min
Jul 10, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg21 min
Jul 10, 6:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPSpartanburg28 min
Jul 10, 6:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens35 min
Jul 10, 6:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee, Spartanburg35 min
Jul 10, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens24 min
Jul 10, 7:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion24 min
Jul 10, 7:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCherokee36 min
Jul 10, 7:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood32 min
Jul 10, 7:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork37 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.