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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 16, 2022Cabarrus County, Union County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2022, 2:37 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, Union County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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 16, 2022, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2022, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Union County, NC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 243 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2022-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 410 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2022-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
896 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 12:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan23 min
Jul 16, 1:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus36 min
Jul 16, 1:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCabarrus, Rowan44 min
Jul 16, 1:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg27 min
Jul 16, 2:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg48 min
Jul 16, 2:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg42 min
Jul 16, 2:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan52 min
Jul 16, 3:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion42 min
Jul 16, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg44 min
Jul 16, 4:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg41 min
Jul 16, 4:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion52 min
Jul 16, 4:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson38 min
Jul 16, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion44 min
Jul 16, 2:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville30 min
Jul 16, 2:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork33 min
Jul 16, 3:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork33 min
Jul 16, 4:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee24 min
Jul 16, 4:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee35 min
Jul 16, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee47 min
Jul 16, 5:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens42 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.