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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 5, 20227 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2022, 7:29 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
Jul 5, 2022, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 2022, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.88 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Buncombe County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Henderson County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 382 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 10:23 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPBurke2 hr
Jul 5, 12:49 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPMacon116 min
Jul 5, 12:59 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPGraham, Swain2 hr
Jul 5, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCaldwell33 min
Jul 5, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson, Polk, Rutherford31 min
Jul 5, 5:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood34 min
Jul 5, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAlexander, Caldwell, Davie, Iredell54 min
Jul 5, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson34 min
Jul 5, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPAvery, Burke, Caldwell64 min
Jul 5, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln47 min
Jul 5, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPIredell, Rowan47 min
Jul 5, 6:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke, McDowell54 min
Jul 5, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan36 min
Jul 5, 7:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk28 min
Jul 5, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell and 3 more51 min
Jul 5, 3:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee24 min
Jul 5, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville, Spartanburg51 min
Jul 5, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg48 min
Jul 5, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPSpartanburg43 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.