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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 262, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 30, 2024Anderson County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2024, 4:59 PM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina. It was in force for 35 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 30, 2024, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2024, 5:34 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Anderson County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 214 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2024-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1219 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2024-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1035 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-20 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 30, 2:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 2:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 7:47 AM EDT, 9 hours 12 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
747 AM EDT Fri Aug 30 2024

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-035>037-048>053-056>059-062>065-
068>072-082-501>510-SCZ008>014-019-101>109-311200-
Rabun-Habersham-Stephens-Franklin-Hart-Elbert-Avery-Alexander-
Iredell-Davie-Madison-Yancey-Mitchell-Swain-Haywood-Buncombe-Catawba-
Rowan-Graham-Northern Jackson-Macon-Southern Jackson-Transylvania-
Henderson-Cleveland-Lincoln-Gaston-Mecklenburg-Cabarrus-Union NC-
Caldwell Mountains-Greater Caldwell-Burke Mountains-Greater Burke-
McDowell Mountains-Eastern McDowell-Rutherford Mountains-
Greater Rutherford-Polk Mountains-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-
747 AM EDT Fri Aug 30 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 showers and thunderstorms will develop this afternoon and
evening. A few storms could become severe with damaging winds and
heavy rainfall.

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

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

None.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 30, 4:11 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 30, 4:37 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 4:41 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 30, 4:51 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 4:56 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 12:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania34 min
Aug 30, 12:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPJackson25 min
Aug 30, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPJackson, Macon30 min
Aug 30, 1:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania38 min
Aug 30, 1:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania28 min
Aug 30, 1:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAvery27 min
Aug 30, 1:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPBuncombe26 min
Aug 30, 1:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHaywood33 min
Aug 30, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBuncombe24 min
Aug 30, 2:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania27 min
Aug 30, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPTransylvania20 min
Aug 30, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham22 min
Aug 30, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPHenderson46 min
Aug 30, 3:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMcDowell32 min
Aug 30, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell26 min
Aug 30, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke45 min
Aug 30, 3:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPTransylvania36 min
Aug 30, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, McDowell32 min
Aug 30, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus25 min
Aug 30, 5:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPCabarrus36 min
Aug 30, 6:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRowan34 min
Aug 30, 6:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPDavidson32 min
Aug 30, 6:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell29 min
Aug 30, 6:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell25 min
Aug 30, 7:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPIredell27 min
Aug 30, 7:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPMecklenburg35 min
Aug 30, 7:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPUnion48 min
Aug 30, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAbbeville35 min
Aug 30, 4:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson27 min
Aug 30, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGreenville25 min
Aug 30, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPGreenville34 min
Aug 30, 4:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPAnderson34 min
Aug 30, 5:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens34 min
Aug 30, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPPickens30 min
Aug 30, 12:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun27 min
Aug 30, 1:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPRabun34 min
Aug 30, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGSPHart24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2024Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.