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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 18, 2021Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2021, 1:49 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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: Mar 18, 2021, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2021, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

County Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 470 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 562 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

819 
WWUS82 KGSP 181749
SPSGSP

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
149 PM EDT Thu Mar 18 2021
 
NCZ508-510-SCZ007-008-181830-
Greater Rutherford NC-Eastern Polk NC-Cherokee SC-Spartanburg SC-
149 PM EDT Thu Mar 18 2021

...HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN RUTHERFORD...EASTERN
POLK...NORTHWESTERN SPARTANBURG AND NORTHWESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTIES
UNTIL 230 PM EDT...

At 149 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain showers along a
line extending from 4 miles southwest of Rutherfordton to 10 miles
southeast of Columbus, and moving northeast at 30 mph.

Locations to be impacted include...
Forest City, Rutherfordton, Spindale, Chesnee, Campobello, Ellenboro,
Bostic, Cowpens National Battlefield, Lake Bowen and Landrum.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph will be possible in these areas.

LAT...LON 3532 8172 3512 8181 3509 8221 3536 8212
      3546 8170
TIME...MOT...LOC 1749Z 246DEG 28KT 3533 8203 3511 8213 

$$

LANE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 18, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	35 min
Mar 18, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	47 min
Mar 18, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	29 min
Mar 18, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	25 min
Mar 18, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	34 min
Mar 18, 4:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg, Union	37 min
Mar 18, 5:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	31 min
Mar 18, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery	18 min
Mar 18, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	36 min
Mar 18, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Transylvania	3 hr
Mar 18, 6:52 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GSP	Henderson, Transylvania	31 hr
Mar 18, 1:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	3 hr
Mar 18, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	37 min
Mar 18, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	23 min
Mar 18, 2:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	23 min
Mar 18, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	48 min
Mar 18, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union	43 min
Mar 18, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	32 min
Mar 18, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.