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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 17, 2020Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 17, 2020, 4:12 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 2020, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2020, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 17, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	27 min
Jul 17, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Watauga	31 min
Jul 17, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	30 min
Jul 17, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	23 min
Jul 17, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	29 min
Jul 17, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	29 min
Jul 17, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	33 min
Jul 17, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, Polk	27 min
Jul 17, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	37 min
Jul 17, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	29 min
Jul 17, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	27 min
Jul 17, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	32 min
Jul 17, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	28 min
Jul 17, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	39 min
Jul 17, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie	29 min
Jul 17, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	35 min
Jul 17, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	35 min
Jul 17, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	25 min
Jul 17, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Iredell	27 min
Jul 17, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	35 min
Jul 17, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	27 min
Jul 17, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	37 min
Jul 17, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	31 min
Jul 17, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	30 min
Jul 17, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	27 min
Jul 17, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	50 min
Jul 17, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Iredell, Rowan	41 min
Jul 17, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Yancey	26 min
Jul 17, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stanly	29 min
Jul 17, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	29 min
Jul 17, 7:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	109 min
Jul 17, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	36 min
Jul 17, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	25 min
Jul 17, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham	27 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.