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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 5, 2022Caldwell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2022, 4:12 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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 5, 2022, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2022, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 50

County Caldwell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Jul 4, 10:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Burke	2 hr
Jul 5, 12:49 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Macon	116 min
Jul 5, 12:59 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Graham, Swain	2 hr
Jul 5, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Henderson, Polk, Rutherford	31 min
Jul 5, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	34 min
Jul 5, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Caldwell, Davie, Iredell	54 min
Jul 5, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	34 min
Jul 5, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Burke, Caldwell	64 min
Jul 5, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln	47 min
Jul 5, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell, Rowan	47 min
Jul 5, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke, McDowell	54 min
Jul 5, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Davie, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan	36 min
Jul 5, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	28 min
Jul 5, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell and 3 more	51 min
Jul 5, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Cleveland, Henderson, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford and 1 more	46 min
Jul 5, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	24 min
Jul 5, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	51 min
Jul 5, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	48 min
Jul 5, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	43 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.