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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 7, 2021Anderson County, South Carolina; Elbert County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 7, 2021, 7:33 PM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina; Elbert County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 7, 2021, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

Counties Elbert County, GA, Anderson County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 590 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.1

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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 Jun 7, 6:37 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 6:37 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 7, 3:44 AM EDT, 15 hours 49 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
344 AM EDT Mon Jun 7 2021

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ001>014-019-080745-
Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Avery-Alexander-
Iredell-Davie-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe-Catawba-
Rowan-Graham-Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania-
Henderson-Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union NC-
Caldwell Mountains-Greater Caldwell-Burke Mountains-Greater Burke-
McDowell Mountains-Eastern McDowell-Rutherford Mountains-
Greater Rutherford-Polk Mountains-Eastern Polk-Oconee Mountains-
Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains-Greater Oconee-
Greater Pickens-Greater Greenville-Spartanburg-Cherokee-York-
Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens-Union SC-Chester-Greenwood-
344 AM EDT Mon Jun 7 2021

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont
North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms can be expected again today. The
main impacts are cloud-to-ground lightning and heavy downpours.
Isolated flash flooding is possible with any slow moving storm that
produces locally heavy rainfall.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

None.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:33 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:56 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 6:58 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:11 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 7:33 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
Jun 6, 8:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	35 min
Jun 6, 8:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	25 min
Jun 7, 2:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	23 min
Jun 7, 2:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	McDowell, Rutherford	74 min
Jun 7, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	30 min
Jun 7, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	35 min
Jun 7, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	29 min
Jun 7, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	27 min
Jun 7, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	23 min
Jun 7, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	35 min
Jun 7, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	31 min
Jun 7, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	31 min
Jun 7, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	23 min
Jun 7, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Mecklenburg, Rowan	30 min
Jun 7, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Rowan, Union	30 min
Jun 7, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	32 min
Jun 7, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Davie, Rowan, Union	31 min
Jun 7, 6:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jun 7, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Union	27 min
Jun 7, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	32 min
Jun 6, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Laurens	32 min
Jun 6, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	36 min
Jun 7, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	26 min
Jun 7, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	24 min
Jun 7, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Union, York	47 min
Jun 7, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	25 min
Jun 7, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	26 min
Jun 7, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	23 min
Jun 7, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	36 min
Jun 7, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	34 min
Jun 7, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	25 min
Jun 7, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	33 min
Jun 7, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	34 min
Jun 7, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	27 min
Jun 7, 5:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Greenville	2 hr
Jun 7, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	38 min
Jun 7, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	36 min
Jun 7, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	27 min
Jun 7, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	29 min
Jun 7, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	34 min
Jun 7, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	34 min
Jun 7, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	49 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.