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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 282, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 27, 2022Burke County, Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2022, 4:09 PM EDT for Burke County, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 18 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 27, 2022, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2022, 4:27 PM EDT
In force
18 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 242 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 2022-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 577 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2022-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
577 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.9

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 1:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk29 min
Jul 27, 3:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke32 min
Jul 27, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander, Caldwell30 min
Jul 27, 4:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk24 min
Jul 27, 4:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland38 min
Jul 27, 4:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander, Catawba28 min
Jul 27, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford35 min
Jul 27, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba, Iredell, Lincoln33 min
Jul 27, 5:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell31 min
Jul 27, 6:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan27 min
Jul 27, 6:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan46 min

Nearby

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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.