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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 159, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 17, 2022Alexander County, Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2022, 4:09 PM EDT for Alexander County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2022, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2022, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Alexander County, NC, Iredell County, NC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 17, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 1514 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1217 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 6:57 PM EDT, 21 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 6:57 PM EDT, 21 hours 12 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 17, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	24 min
Jun 17, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham, Swain	23 min
Jun 17, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mitchell	32 min
Jun 17, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham, Swain	52 min
Jun 17, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Madison	50 min
Jun 17, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, McDowell, Yancey	34 min
Jun 17, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain	44 min
Jun 17, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	37 min
Jun 17, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Graham	30 min
Jun 17, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery	25 min
Jun 17, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Macon	21 min
Jun 17, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon, Transylvania	45 min
Jun 17, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	29 min
Jun 17, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie, Iredell, Rowan	47 min
Jun 17, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	29 min
Jun 17, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	27 min
Jun 17, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston	34 min
Jun 17, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	29 min
Jun 17, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	45 min
Jun 17, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	38 min
Jun 17, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	36 min
Jun 17, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	50 min
Jun 17, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	33 min
Jun 17, 12:29 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	31 min
Jun 17, 12:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	27 min
Jun 17, 1:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	29 min
Jun 17, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee, Pickens	40 min
Jun 17, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	45 min
Jun 17, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	31 min
Jun 17, 4:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	34 min
Jun 17, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	50 min
Jun 17, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	42 min
Jun 17, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	40 min
Jun 17, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	39 min
Jun 17, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	35 min
Jun 17, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	50 min
Jun 17, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	18 min
Jun 17, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	40 min
Jun 17, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	25 min
Jun 17, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	34 min
Jun 17, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg, Union	43 min
Jun 17, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	29 min
Jun 17, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	York	34 min
Jun 17, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	42 min
Jun 17, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	29 min
Jun 17, 2:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin	45 min
Jun 17, 2:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Hart	39 min
Jun 17, 3:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	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.