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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 220, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2020, 5:17 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 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 20, 2020, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2020, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Jul 20, 2:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 2:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 20, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery, Burke, Caldwell | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Transylvania | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 2:49 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Davie, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Union | 29 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 35 min |
| Jul 20, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford | 46 min |
| Jul 20, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 33 min |
| Jul 20, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Alexander | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Davie, Iredell | 43 min |
| Jul 20, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 32 min |
| Jul 20, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 29 min |
| Jul 20, 4:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 30 min |
| Jul 20, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 35 min |
| Jul 20, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 27 min |
| Jul 20, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 26 min |
| Jul 20, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk | 36 min |
| Jul 20, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 35 min |
| Jul 20, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 26 min |
| Jul 20, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 27 min |
| Jul 20, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | York | 37 min |
| Jul 20, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 31 min |
| Jul 20, 4:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Union, York | 20 min |
| Jul 20, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 22 min |
| Jul 20, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 24 min |
| Jul 20, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.