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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 15, 2024Transylvania County, North Carolina; Greenville County, Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2024, 3:29 PM EDT for Transylvania County, North Carolina; Greenville County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 29 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: May 15, 2024, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2024, 3:58 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Transylvania County, NC, Greenville County, SC, Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 336 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: 1051 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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
May 15, 12:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Swain	30 min
May 15, 12:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	28 min
May 15, 12:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Haywood	32 min
May 15, 3:54 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	GSP	Alexander, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln and 1 more	6 hr
May 15, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	27 min
May 15, 1:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	25 min
May 15, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	28 min
May 15, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Caldwell	29 min
May 15, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	31 min
May 15, 2:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	40 min
May 15, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	33 min
May 15, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Union	46 min
May 15, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Lincoln, McDowell and 1 more	46 min
May 15, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	27 min
May 15, 3:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mecklenburg	33 min
May 15, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	44 min
May 15, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg, Union	44 min
May 15, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	39 min
May 15, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Lincoln	46 min
May 15, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg, Union	58 min
May 15, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	36 min
May 15, 5:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Union	3 hr
May 15, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	50 min
May 15, 6:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Mecklenburg	119 min
May 14, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	39 min
May 14, 9:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	43 min
May 14, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	47 min
May 15, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	40 min
May 15, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	31 min
May 15, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee	33 min
May 15, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	35 min
May 15, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	41 min
May 15, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, York	57 min
May 15, 3:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Cherokee, Spartanburg	2 hr
May 15, 3:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cherokee	2 hr
May 15, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	34 min
May 15, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	40 min
May 15, 4:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester, Laurens, Union	49 min
May 14, 8:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Hart	42 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.