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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 20, 2022Oconee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2022, 2:21 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 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 20, 2022, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 2022, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Oconee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:25 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 1680 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 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 19, 8:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Union	3 hr
Jul 19, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	28 min
Jul 19, 8:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Union	4 hr
Jul 19, 9:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	42 min
Jul 19, 9:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Union	3 hr
Jul 20, 2:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood	25 min
Jul 20, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	37 min
Jul 20, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	35 min
Jul 20, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell, Polk	23 min
Jul 20, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Cleveland, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford	45 min
Jul 20, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	35 min
Jul 20, 5:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	27 min
Jul 20, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	26 min
Jul 20, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	48 min
Jul 20, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus	37 min
Jul 20, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	35 min
Jul 20, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	53 min
Jul 20, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	27 min
Jul 20, 6:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	27 min
Jul 20, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	37 min
Jul 20, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	31 min
Jul 20, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rowan	30 min
Jul 20, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davie	27 min
Jul 20, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davidson	33 min
Jul 20, 6:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan	35 min
Jul 20, 6:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	31 min
Jul 20, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	29 min
Jul 20, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	31 min
Jul 20, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Davidson	30 min
Jul 20, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	33 min
Jul 19, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	29 min
Jul 20, 3:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	36 min
Jul 20, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	26 min
Jul 20, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	30 min
Jul 20, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	32 min
Jul 20, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	33 min
Jul 20, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	27 min
Jul 20, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee, York	37 min
Jul 20, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	35 min
Jul 20, 7:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	25 min
Jul 20, 7:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	36 min
Jul 20, 4:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	29 min
Jul 20, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	25 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.