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Special Weather Statement, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 7, 2023Abbeville County, South Carolina; Elbert County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2023, 6:21 PM EDT for Abbeville County, South Carolina; Elbert County, Georgia. 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 7, 2023, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2023, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

Counties Elbert County, GA, Abbeville County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 7, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	25 min
Jul 7, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	33 min
Jul 7, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	46 min
Jul 7, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	32 min
Jul 7, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	31 min
Jul 7, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Polk	28 min
Jul 7, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	24 min
Jul 7, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba	38 min
Jul 7, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	45 min
Jul 7, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	38 min
Jul 7, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	52 min
Jul 7, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	42 min
Jul 7, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	50 min
Jul 7, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	27 min
Jul 7, 5:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	36 min
Jul 7, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	38 min
Jul 7, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	York	26 min
Jul 7, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rabun	35 min
Jul 7, 6:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	24 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.