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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2020, 7:28 AM EST for Henderson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina; 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 13, 2020, 7:28 AM EST (12:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2020, 8:00 AM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Henderson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:29 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 462 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 506 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.9
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 10:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 45 min |
| Feb 12, 11:03 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery, Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 57 min |
| Feb 13, 12:04 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery, Mitchell | 41 min |
| Feb 13, 2:03 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Graham, Swain | 11 hr |
| Feb 13, 4:22 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Gaston, Mecklenburg | 5 days |
| Feb 13, 7:03 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Rutherford | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 7:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Feb 13, 8:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 29 min |
| Feb 13, 8:03 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Haywood, Jackson | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 8:29 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Feb 13, 8:54 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln | 36 min |
| Feb 13, 9:00 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Macon, Swain | 10 hr |
| Feb 13, 9:13 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson | 6 hr |
| Feb 13, 9:26 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 34 min |
| Feb 13, 9:46 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 50 hr |
| Feb 13, 9:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Mecklenburg, Union | 43 min |
| Feb 13, 9:55 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Swain | 11 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:26 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union | 49 min |
| Feb 13, 10:37 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 59 hr |
| Feb 13, 5:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Pickens | 45 min |
| Feb 13, 6:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 44 min |
| Feb 13, 7:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Oconee, Pickens | 38 min |
| Feb 13, 8:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Spartanburg | 51 min |
| Feb 13, 8:57 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 9:02 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens, Union | 28 min |
| Feb 13, 9:24 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Union, York | 36 min |
| Feb 13, 9:28 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 9:58 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 10:10 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 20 min |
| Feb 13, 12:44 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 12 hr |
| Feb 13, 6:02 AM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 12 hr |
| Feb 13, 6:30 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 7:19 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Franklin, Hart, Stephens | 41 min |
| Feb 13, 8:35 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert | 40 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.