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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 6, 2024Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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 6, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2024, 7:31 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 794 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 May 6, 5:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 5:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 4:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg SC
451 PM EDT Mon May 6 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>109-072100-
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-
451 PM EDT Mon May 6 2024

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

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Widespread showers and thunderstorms are expected through this evening.
The main potential hazards with this activity are cloud-to- ground
lightning, locally heavy rainfall, and gusty winds. A few severe
thunderstorms are possible with damaging wind gusts and small hail.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday.

No hazardous weather is expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

None.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 6, 4:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 4:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 6, 5:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 6, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Special weather statement, May 6, 6:30 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 6, 6:44 PM EDT, 16 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
May 5, 8:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Transylvania	52 min
May 5, 9:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Transylvania	2 hr
May 6, 2:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	41 min
May 5, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Abbeville	38 min
May 6, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	36 min
May 6, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	47 min
May 6, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	43 min
May 6, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville, Oconee, Pickens	47 min
May 6, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Oconee	53 min
May 6, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	59 min
May 6, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Pickens	51 min
May 6, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg	67 min
May 6, 5:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GSP	Pickens	6 hr
May 6, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	32 min
May 6, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenville	30 min
May 6, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens, Spartanburg, Union	62 min
May 6, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Pickens	30 min
May 6, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Greenwood	31 min
May 6, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Chester	43 min
May 5, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Elbert	41 min
May 6, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GSP	Franklin	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2024 Every 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.