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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 26, 2021, 3:49 AM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 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 26, 2021, 3:49 AM EDT (07:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2021, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
County Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 328 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 476 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
The text
As transmitted.
944
WWUS82 KGSP 260749
SPSGSP
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
349 AM EDT Fri Mar 26 2021
SCZ006-010>012-019-260815-
Laurens SC-Abbeville SC-Anderson SC-Greenwood SC-
Greater Greenville SC-
349 AM EDT Fri Mar 26 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN LAURENS...
SOUTHEASTERN GREENVILLE...EAST CENTRAL ANDERSON...NORTHEASTERN
ABBEVILLE AND NORTHWESTERN GREENWOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 415 AM EDT...
At 349 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 11
miles east of Anderson, or near Honea Path, moving east at 55 mph.
Locations to be impacted include...
Laurens, Fountain Inn, Belton, Honea Path, Ware Shoals, Due West,
Gray Court, Donalds, Shoals Junction and Fork Shoals.
Wind gusts up to 40 mph, pea size hail and very heavy rainfall rates
up to 2 inches per hour will be possible in these areas.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
The combination of gusty winds and saturated soil conditions will
cause scattered trees and power lines to fall. Seek shelter inside an
interior room.
&&
LAT...LON 3431 8248 3443 8260 3454 8257 3475 8211
3441 8190
TIME...MOT...LOC 0749Z 251DEG 47KT 3448 8245
$$
MOOREThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 9:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Macon | 9 hr |
| Mar 25, 9:48 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 14 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Henderson | 59 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Haywood, Jackson | 8 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:29 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Madison | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell | 6 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:50 PM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe | 64 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:57 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 6 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 12:27 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Swain | 11 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Graham, Swain | 5 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:45 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Madison | 13 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, Polk, Rutherford | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 2:50 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 14 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:55 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Gaston | 51 hr |
| Mar 26, 2:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 3:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 3:05 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Madison | 8 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:21 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 27 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Mar 26, 3:52 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus | 25 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Gaston, Rowan | 34 min |
| Mar 26, 4:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Cabarrus, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 12 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Macon, Swain | 24 hr |
| Mar 26, 8:50 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Alexander, Catawba, Iredell | 21 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Rowan | 9 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 24 min |
| Mar 25, 11:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Oconee, Pickens | 12 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Spartanburg | 38 min |
| Mar 26, 12:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester, Union, York | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 1:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee, Pickens | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 2:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville | 32 min |
| Mar 26, 3:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson | 30 min |
| Mar 26, 3:21 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee, York | 30 hr |
| Mar 26, 3:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 24 min |
| Mar 26, 4:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 29 min |
| Mar 26, 4:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens, Union | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 4:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 4:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 4:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 4:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 5:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Chester | 40 min |
| Mar 26, 6:17 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 7 hr |
| Mar 26, 6:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 17 min |
| Mar 26, 6:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 9:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville | 25 min |
| Mar 26, 9:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 49 min |
| Mar 26, 11:28 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Pickens | 14 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:32 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 31 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Spartanburg | 10 hr |
| Mar 25, 11:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Habersham | 6 hr |
| Mar 26, 12:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 33 min |
| Mar 26, 12:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 6 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 31 min |
| Mar 26, 2:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Franklin, Hart | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 6:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Elbert | 50 min |
| Mar 26, 6:42 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GSP | Habersham, Rabun | 27 hr |
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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.