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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 13, 2020Burke County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 13, 2020, 3:25 PM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 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: Aug 13, 2020, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2020, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Burke County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 804 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 13, 2:49 PM EDT, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:49 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 13, 6:19 AM EDT, 9 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:35 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:54 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:56 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:59 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 3:25 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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
Aug 12, 8:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	37 min
Aug 13, 12:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	30 min
Aug 13, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	27 min
Aug 13, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	25 min
Aug 13, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	34 min
Aug 13, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	31 min
Aug 13, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell, Davie	40 min
Aug 13, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	24 min
Aug 13, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	47 min
Aug 13, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	29 min
Aug 13, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	23 min
Aug 13, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Rowan	45 min
Aug 13, 5:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Catawba, Iredell, Rowan	3 hr
Aug 13, 5:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Iredell, Rowan	3 hr
Aug 13, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln	49 min
Aug 13, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	30 min
Aug 13, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	27 min
Aug 13, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	27 min
Aug 13, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	49 min
Aug 13, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg	17 min
Aug 13, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	52 min
Aug 13, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	36 min
Aug 13, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	11 min
Aug 13, 7:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	24 min
Aug 13, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	33 min
Aug 12, 8:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	26 min
Aug 12, 8:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	37 min
Aug 12, 8:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	72 min
Aug 12, 9:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Oconee	54 min
Aug 12, 9:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	3 hr
Aug 12, 10:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	42 min
Aug 12, 10:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	42 min
Aug 12, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	33 min
Aug 12, 11:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	31 min
Aug 12, 11:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	27 min
Aug 13, 12:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	37 min
Aug 13, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	37 min
Aug 13, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	36 min
Aug 13, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	34 min
Aug 13, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	32 min
Aug 13, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	27 min
Aug 13, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	49 min
Aug 13, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	24 min
Aug 13, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	29 min
Aug 13, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	25 min
Aug 13, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	44 min
Aug 13, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	44 min
Aug 12, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Stephens	80 min
Aug 13, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	25 min
Aug 13, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stephens	32 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.