Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 25, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 251902 SVRGSP SCC073-251930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 300 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS EXTENDED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 300 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF WALHALLA MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... SALEM AT 315 PM EDT PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. $$ SAB
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 Jun 25, 2:27 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:27 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 227 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2000 LARGER SCALE ASCENT/DPVA IN ASSOCIATION WITH ELONGATED VORT AXIS HELPING TO ENHANCE/ORGANIZE SCT STRONG & ISOLATED SVR TSTMS ACRS THE WESTERN 1/3 OF THE CWFA. THRU TONIGHT...THIS FEATURE LOSES IT'S EASTWARD TRANSLATION AS IT BUMPS INTO SUBTROPICAL UPPER RIDGE... CENTERED WELL OUT IN THE ATLANTIC. WITH THIS FEATURE LINGERING THRU TONIGHT...ACTIVITY MAY PAST DIURALLY FAVORED TIMEFRAME. THROUGH THE REST OF THE SHORT RANGE PERIOD...CWFA TO REMAIN IN WEAKNESS BETWEEN UPPER RIDGES CENTERED IN THE ATLANTIC & OVER THE SOUTHWEST U.S. PERIODIC WEAK S/WV'S ROTATING THROUGH BROAD UPPER TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO BRUSH REGION...SO CHC POPS WILL CONTINUE. IN THE EXTENDED...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS TRENDING TOWARDS AMPLIFYING PATTERN THRU THE END OF THE WEEK & DRIVING A FRONTAL ZONE INTO THE CWFA. TOUGH TO ASERTAIN SOUTHWARD EXTEN T OF BNDRY BY DAY 5...BUT NONETHELESS WITH TROUGHINESS & SYNOPTIC SCALE FRONTAL ZONES IN VCNTY...POPS NEEDED FOR DAYS 3-5. AVL 63/85/64/84 3434 CLT 68/91/68/90 3333 GSP 69/92/69/91 3333 .GSP...NONE. CSH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:07 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
207 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
150 PM WEAVERVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUMCOMBE TREES/POWER LINES DOWN. 1
HOME DAMAGED.
150 PM SKYLAND NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUNCOMBE TREES DOWN...1 ON A HOUSE.
150 PM BILTMORE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUMCOMBE POWER LINES DOWN.
150 PM BARNARDSVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUNCOMBE POWER LINES AND TREES
DOWN. 1 TREE ON A HOUSE.
150 PM ASHEVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUNCOMBE POWER LINES AND TREES
DOWN.
ALL REPORTS FROM BUNCOMBE COUNTY COMMS
RWH
NNNNLocal storm report, Jun 25, 2:51 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
251 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
215 PM BLACK MOUNTAIN NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUNCOMBE 15 TO 20 TREES DOWN. SOME
ON VEHICLES AND POWER
LINES. FROM COUNTY COMMS.
230 PM PLEASANT GARDEN NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 MCDOWELL TREES DOWN ACROSS HWY 70
AND GREENLEY RD. FROM
COUNTY COMMS.
RWH
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 47 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.