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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 2, 2022Alexander County, Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2022, 5:31 PM EDT for Alexander County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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: Jun 2, 2022, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2022, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Alexander County, NC, Iredell County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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
Jun 1, 9:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	45 min
Jun 2, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Madison	29 min
Jun 2, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Yancey	42 min
Jun 2, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	51 min
Jun 2, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	46 min
Jun 2, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk	45 min
Jun 2, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	28 min
Jun 2, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	43 min
Jun 2, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	43 min
Jun 2, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	24 min
Jun 2, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	45 min
Jun 2, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Yancey	52 min
Jun 2, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander, Iredell	49 min
Jun 2, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Polk, Rutherford	46 min
Jun 2, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	42 min
Jun 2, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	64 min
Jun 2, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	46 min
Jun 2, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell	39 min
Jun 2, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	58 min
Jun 2, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Iredell	40 min
Jun 2, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie, Iredell	54 min
Jun 2, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	43 min
Jun 2, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	47 min
Jun 2, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	41 min
Jun 2, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	48 min
Jun 2, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	43 min
Jun 2, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	36 min
Jun 2, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	42 min
Jun 2, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	53 min
Jun 2, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	42 min
Jun 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	50 min
Jun 2, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Laurens	47 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.