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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 7, 2022Gaston County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Apr 7, 2022, 3:21 AM EDT for Gaston County, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2022, 3:21 AM EDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2022, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

Counties Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 1861 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

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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
Apr 6, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham	34 min
Apr 6, 8:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	26 min
Apr 6, 8:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Madison, Yancey	49 min
Apr 6, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	29 min
Apr 6, 9:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	28 min
Apr 6, 9:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery, Mitchell	38 min
Apr 6, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood, Madison	34 min
Apr 7, 2:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	25 min
Apr 7, 4:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	31 min
Apr 6, 11:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	28 min
Apr 6, 11:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	29 min
Apr 7, 12:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	33 min
Apr 7, 1:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	30 min
Apr 7, 3:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Anderson	30 min
Apr 7, 3:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	27 min
Apr 7, 3:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	36 min
Apr 7, 3:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee, Pickens	25 min
Apr 7, 3:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Laurens	34 min
Apr 7, 3:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	31 min
Apr 7, 3:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	37 min
Apr 6, 10:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	26 min
Apr 6, 10:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	26 min
Apr 7, 2:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Hart	33 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.