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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 1, 20234 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2023, 2:08 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 1, 2023, 2:08 PM EDT (18:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2023, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Buncombe County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Yancey County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 329 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: 939 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 925 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 1, 1:33 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 1:33 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 1, 8:34 AM EDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:53 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:57 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 2:04 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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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 1, 7:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Avery	40 min
Jul 1, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	37 min
Jul 1, 1:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	33 min
Jul 1, 1:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood, Jackson, Transylvania	47 min
Jul 1, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	26 min
Jul 1, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Haywood	30 min
Jul 1, 2:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, McDowell, Rutherford	35 min
Jul 1, 2:42 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Polk and 2 more	29 hr
Jul 1, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Swain	25 min
Jul 1, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	25 min
Jul 1, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	23 min
Jul 1, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	35 min
Jul 1, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Polk, Rutherford	32 min
Jul 1, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Burke	25 min
Jul 1, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	32 min
Jul 1, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	28 min
Jul 1, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	38 min
Jul 1, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	31 min
Jul 1, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	24 min
Jul 1, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Macon	35 min
Jul 1, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	33 min
Jul 1, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Jackson, Macon, Transylvania	18 min
Jul 1, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Iredell	36 min
Jul 1, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Macon	25 min
Jul 1, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	24 min
Jul 1, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln	51 min
Jul 1, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	25 min
Jul 1, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Graham, Macon, Swain	43 min
Jul 1, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	28 min
Jul 1, 7:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	36 min
Jul 1, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	42 min
Jul 1, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	32 min
Jul 1, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Spartanburg	26 min
Jul 1, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Pickens	36 min
Jul 1, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	35 min
Jul 1, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	48 min
Jul 1, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	45 min
Jul 1, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	30 min
Jul 1, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Pickens	49 min
Jul 1, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	31 min
Jul 1, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson, Greenville, Laurens	45 min
Jul 1, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	33 min
Jul 1, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	32 min
Jul 1, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Oconee	45 min
Jul 1, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	28 min
Jul 1, 6:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham, Stephens	37 min
Jul 1, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Habersham, Rabun, Stephens	42 min
Jul 1, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin, Hart, Stephens	38 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.