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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 3, 2022Swain County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 3, 2022, 4:21 PM EDT for Swain 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
Jul 3, 2022, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 3, 2022, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail
0.25 in
Wind
40

County Swain County, NC

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2022-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1272 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2022-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -11 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 2, 7:36 PM EDT, 20 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 7:36 PM EDT, 20 hours 45 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 8:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg39 min
Jul 2, 8:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell48 min
Jul 2, 8:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavie45 min
Jul 2, 8:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander, Burke, Caldwell44 min
Jul 2, 8:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPDavie, Iredell, Rowan26 min
Jul 2, 9:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell43 min
Jul 2, 9:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan43 min
Jul 2, 9:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham38 min
Jul 2, 10:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan27 min
Jul 3, 1:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe47 min
Jul 3, 1:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon41 min
Jul 3, 1:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHenderson34 min
Jul 3, 2:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander37 min
Jul 3, 2:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery36 min
Jul 3, 2:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk47 min
Jul 3, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania31 min
Jul 3, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMadison42 min
Jul 3, 2:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBurke47 min
Jul 3, 2:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAlexander, Iredell44 min
Jul 3, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell41 min
Jul 3, 3:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPolk45 min
Jul 3, 3:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford39 min
Jul 3, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba45 min
Jul 3, 3:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRutherford43 min
Jul 3, 3:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe37 min
Jul 3, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania33 min
Jul 3, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell45 min
Jul 3, 3:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba35 min
Jul 3, 3:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland, Rutherford47 min
Jul 3, 4:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba42 min
Jul 3, 4:06 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPRutherford3 hr
Jul 3, 4:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania40 min
Jul 3, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg45 min
Jul 3, 4:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCatawba, Gaston, Lincoln38 min
Jul 3, 4:47 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCabarrus, Mecklenburg3 hr
Jul 3, 4:48 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPCatawba, Iredell, Lincoln3 hr
Jul 3, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCleveland39 min
Jul 3, 5:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham44 min
Jul 3, 5:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus39 min
Jul 3, 5:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGraham37 min
Jul 3, 5:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon45 min
Jul 3, 5:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMacon40 min
Jul 3, 5:53 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPGraham3 hr
Jul 3, 6:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGSPGraham, Macon, Swain3 hr
Jul 3, 6:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion47 min
Jul 3, 2:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee42 min
Jul 3, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPOconee36 min
Jul 3, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPOconee43 min
Jul 3, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens46 min
Jul 3, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville43 min
Jul 3, 4:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson43 min
Jul 3, 5:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson26 min
Jul 3, 5:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville34 min
Jul 3, 5:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson42 min
Jul 3, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPYork39 min
Jul 3, 5:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens36 min
Jul 3, 6:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens35 min
Jul 3, 6:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPChester34 min
Jul 3, 6:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens33 min
Jul 3, 6:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenwood39 min
Jul 3, 6:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPLaurens30 min
Jul 2, 11:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPElbert24 min
Jul 3, 1:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun34 min
Jul 3, 2:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun43 min
Jul 3, 3:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHabersham37 min
Jul 3, 4:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPFranklin37 min
Jul 3, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHart45 min
Jul 3, 5:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPElbert31 min
Jul 3, 6:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPElbert47 min
Jul 3, 7:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun48 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.