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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 7, 2022Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2022, 2:14 PM EDT for Pickens County, South 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 7, 2022, 2:14 PM EDT (18:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2022, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 1434 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 3:45 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston, Iredell and 4 more	15 hr
Jul 7, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	51 min
Jul 7, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	28 min
Jul 7, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	23 min
Jul 7, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg, Union	32 min
Jul 6, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	40 min
Jul 6, 9:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	40 min
Jul 7, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	29 min
Jul 7, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	24 min
Jul 7, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	41 min
Jul 7, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	37 min
Jul 7, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	42 min
Jul 7, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	50 min
Jul 7, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	45 min
Jul 7, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	43 min
Jul 7, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	48 min
Jul 7, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens, Spartanburg, Union	47 min
Jul 7, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	40 min
Jul 7, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	42 min
Jul 6, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin	26 min
Jul 6, 8:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	50 min
Jul 6, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Stephens	49 min
Jul 6, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Hart, Stephens	42 min
Jul 6, 10:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	45 min
Jul 7, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	28 min
Jul 7, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	23 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.