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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 2024, 4:52 PM EST for Mecklenburg County, Union County, North Carolina; Chester County, Union County, York County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 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
- Feb 28, 2024, 4:52 PM EST (21:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2024, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Mecklenburg County, NC, Union County, NC, Chester County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 28, 2:26 PM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 2:26 PM EST, 2 hours 26 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC 1020 AM EST Wed Feb 28 2024 NCZ033-049-050-053-065-501-503-505-507-509-291530- Avery-Yancey-Mitchell-Buncombe-Henderson-Caldwell Mountains- Burke Mountains-McDowell Mountains-Rutherford Mountains- Polk Mountains- 1020 AM EST Wed Feb 28 2024 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST THURSDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. A line of thunderstorms will cross the region today. A few of these storms will be capable of producing damaging winds, small hail, and cloud to ground lightning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ035>037-048-051-056>058-068>072-082- 502-504-506-508-510-SCZ008>014-019-101>109-291530- Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Alexander-Iredell- Davie-Madison-Swain-Catawba-Rowan-Graham-Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston- Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union NC-Greater Caldwell-Greater Burke- Eastern McDowell-Greater Rutherford-Eastern Polk-Cherokee-York- Anderson-Abbeville-Laurens-Union SC-Chester-Greenwood- Oconee Mountains-Pickens Mountains-Greenville Mountains- Greater Oconee-Greater Pickens-Central Greenville- Southern Greenville-Northern Spartanburg-Southern Spartanburg- 1020 AM EST Wed Feb 28 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A line of thunderstorms will cross the region today. A few of these storms will be capable of producing damaging winds, small hail, and cloud to ground lightning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. NCZ052-059-062>064-291530- Haywood-Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania- 1020 AM EST Wed Feb 28 2024 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 1 AM EST THURSDAY ABOVE 3500 FEET... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for western North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Wind Advisory. A line of thunderstorms will cross the region today. A few of these storms will be capable of producing damaging winds, small hail, and cloud to ground lightning. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... None. Krentz
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 28, 3:54 PM EST, 58 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 1:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Madison | 27 min |
| Feb 28, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison, Mitchell, Yancey | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 1:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Avery, Mitchell, Yancey | 34 min |
| Feb 28, 4:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Davie | 36 min |
| Feb 28, 5:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Rowan | 24 min |
| Feb 28, 2:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Oconee | 25 min |
| Feb 28, 3:02 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Pickens | 28 min |
| Feb 28, 3:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Pickens, Spartanburg | 50 min |
| Feb 28, 3:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Oconee | 51 min |
| Feb 28, 3:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union | 31 min |
| Feb 28, 3:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Chester, Spartanburg, Union, York | 34 min |
| Feb 28, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Chester, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg and 1 more | 46 min |
| Feb 28, 4:21 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 24 min |
| Feb 28, 4:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester, Laurens, Union, York | 32 min |
| Feb 28, 4:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Greenwood | 33 min |
| Feb 28, 1:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GSP | Rabun | 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.