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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2023, 6:45 PM EDT for Burke County, Catawba County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 13, 2023, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2023, 7:17 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Burke County, NC, Catawba County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 241 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1049 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GSP | Henderson | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Mitchell | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Yancey | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cleveland | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Cleveland, Rutherford | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 7:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Catawba | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rowan | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Laurens | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 31 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.