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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2022, 8:18 PM EDT for Alexander County, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2022, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alexander County, NC, Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7:58 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 7:58 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 21, 8:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 48 min |
| May 21, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 46 min |
| May 21, 9:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke | 43 min |
| May 21, 9:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rutherford | 47 min |
| May 21, 9:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 40 min |
| May 21, 9:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 50 min |
| May 21, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell | 43 min |
| May 21, 10:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 34 min |
| May 21, 11:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Caldwell | 27 min |
| May 22, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 39 min |
| May 22, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 51 min |
| May 22, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 39 min |
| May 22, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 47 min |
| May 22, 3:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 49 min |
| May 22, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell, Yancey | 43 min |
| May 22, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 42 min |
| May 22, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 40 min |
| May 22, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Haywood | 51 min |
| May 22, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Buncombe | 47 min |
| May 22, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 51 min |
| May 22, 4:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Buncombe | 3 hr |
| May 22, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery | 51 min |
| May 22, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | McDowell | 48 min |
| May 22, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 47 min |
| May 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 50 min |
| May 22, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford | 45 min |
| May 22, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Macon | 43 min |
| May 22, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 41 min |
| May 22, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Rutherford, Transylvania | 42 min |
| May 22, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 46 min |
| May 22, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford | 44 min |
| May 22, 6:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba, Davie, Iredell | 41 min |
| May 22, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie, Iredell, Rowan | 28 min |
| May 22, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Gaston | 48 min |
| May 22, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Graham | 50 min |
| May 22, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.