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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 2, 20245 counties in North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2024, 5:10 PM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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: Aug 2, 2024, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2024, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 4 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 Aug 2, 2:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 4:51 AM EDT, 12 hours 19 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
451 AM EDT Fri Aug 2 2024

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>070-501>510-SCZ008-010-101>109-030900-
Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Avery-Alexander-Iredell-Davie-
Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe-Catawba-Rowan-Graham-
Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania-Henderson-
Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-Caldwell Mountains-Greater Caldwell-
Burke Mountains-Greater Burke-McDowell Mountains-Eastern McDowell-
Rutherford Mountains-Greater Rutherford-Polk Mountains-Eastern Polk-
Cherokee-Anderson-Oconee Mountains-Pickens Mountains-
Greenville Mountains-Greater Oconee-Greater Pickens-
Central Greenville-Southern Greenville-Northern Spartanburg-
Southern Spartanburg-
451 AM EDT Fri Aug 2 2024

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont
North Carolina, western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and evening will pose a risk
of cloud-to-ground lightning and flash flooding from torrential
rainfall. Some of these storms may also produce damaging wind gusts.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

More thunderstorms are expected over the weekend and could produce
isolated flooding and damaging wind gusts.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are requested to forward any reports of large hail,
damaging winds, tornadoes, or flash flooding to our office.

GAZ029-NCZ071-072-082-SCZ009-011>014-019-030900-
Elbert-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union NC-York-Abbeville-Laurens-Union SC-
Chester-Greenwood-
451 AM EDT Fri Aug 2 2024

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northeast Georgia, piedmont
North Carolina and upstate South 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.

   Heat Advisory.

In addition, scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and evening will
pose a risk of cloud-to-ground lightning and flash flooding from
torrential rainfall. Some of these storms may also produce damaging
wind gusts.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

More thunderstorms are expected over the weekend and could produce
isolated flooding and damaging wind gusts.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotters are requested to forward any reports of large hail,
damaging winds, tornadoes, or flash flooding to our office.

JPT

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Aug 2, 3:17 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:11 PM EDT, 59 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
Aug 1, 10:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	46 min
Aug 2, 3:35 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Union	15 hr
Aug 2, 12:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mitchell	25 min
Aug 2, 12:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Jackson	38 min
Aug 2, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	37 min
Aug 2, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	29 min
Aug 2, 1:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	67 min
Aug 2, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	51 min
Aug 2, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	74 min
Aug 2, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell	61 min
Aug 2, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	25 min
Aug 2, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	31 min
Aug 2, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson, Rutherford	40 min
Aug 2, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	39 min
Aug 2, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	44 min
Aug 2, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	51 min
Aug 2, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Alexander	48 min
Aug 2, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	50 min
Aug 2, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Catawba, Davie, Iredell	53 min
Aug 2, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	49 min
Aug 2, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln	47 min
Aug 2, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	45 min
Aug 2, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	48 min
Aug 2, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Iredell	50 min
Aug 2, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Rutherford	41 min
Aug 2, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Yancey	36 min
Aug 2, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Henderson	33 min
Aug 2, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Madison	27 min
Aug 2, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Cleveland	47 min
Aug 2, 7:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	42 min
Aug 2, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Mecklenburg	35 min
Aug 2, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	McDowell	43 min
Aug 2, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Gaston	48 min
Aug 2, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Buncombe	26 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.