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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 21, 2022Cabarrus County, Rowan County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2022, 3:47 PM EDT for Cabarrus County, Rowan County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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: May 21, 2022, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2022, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Rowan County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 168 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 908 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1340 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 21, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 2:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 5:14 AM EDT, 10 hours 33 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 21, 3:15 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 3:18 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 3:20 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 3:29 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 3:32 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 21, 3:40 PM EDT, 7 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
May 21, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	37 min
May 21, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	36 min
May 21, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	48 min
May 21, 1:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Mitchell	33 min
May 21, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	47 min
May 21, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Madison	30 min
May 21, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	26 min
May 21, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood, Jackson	39 min
May 21, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	32 min
May 21, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	40 min
May 21, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood	34 min
May 21, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Mitchell	41 min
May 21, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	39 min
May 21, 2:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	32 min
May 21, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	43 min
May 21, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	43 min
May 21, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	52 min
May 21, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Mitchell	50 min
May 21, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	44 min
May 21, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	49 min
May 21, 3:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	42 min
May 21, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	40 min
May 21, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	46 min
May 21, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	28 min
May 21, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	50 min
May 21, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	40 min
May 21, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	24 min
May 21, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	37 min
May 21, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	34 min
May 21, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	47 min
May 21, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	46 min
May 21, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Davie, Rowan	33 min
May 21, 4:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	25 min
May 21, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Catawba	51 min
May 21, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	45 min
May 21, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Stanly	37 min
May 21, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	49 min
May 21, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	43 min
May 21, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	41 min
May 21, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	35 min
May 21, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	48 min
May 21, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	39 min
May 21, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	41 min
May 21, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	44 min
May 21, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	44 min
May 21, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	43 min
May 21, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	45 min
May 21, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	38 min
May 21, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	35 min
May 21, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	30 min
May 21, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	27 min
May 21, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	34 min
May 21, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	45 min
May 21, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	32 min
May 21, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	40 min
May 21, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	46 min
May 21, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	45 min
May 21, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	46 min
May 21, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	51 min
May 21, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	42 min
May 21, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	42 min
May 21, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	42 min
May 21, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin	47 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.