Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2000, 6:34 PM EDT for Abbeville County, Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2000, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Abbeville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Abbeville, SC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 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 262234 SVRGSP SCC001-047-262300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 634 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ABBEVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA GREENWOOD COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 634 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENWOOD...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF VERDERY...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... VERDERY AT 640 PM EDT PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. $$
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 26, 3:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 3:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 320 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000 ETA MODEL THE ONLY ONE AVAILABLE THUS FAR. ETA SHOWS THE UPPER PATTERN SLOWLY EVOLVING OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS...WITH THE ATLANTIC SUBTROPICAL HIGH MOVING OFF TO THE EAST AND A BROAD MID/UPPER TROF DIGGING DOWN OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE COUNTRY. WHILE 500 MB HEIGHTS WILL GRADUALLY LOWER OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS...MOST OF THE SHORT WAVES MOVING THROUGH THE TROF WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK WELL TO OUR NORTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HOWEVER...THE SLOWLY DIGGING TROF WILL PUSH A SURFACE BOUNDARY...CURRENTLY LOCATED OVER THE MIDWEST... DOWN TO THE SOUTHEAST THROUGH TUESDAY AND INTO THE WESTERN CAROLINAS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. THIS BOUNDARY SHOULD PROVIDE AN EXCELLENT FOCUS FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT BEGINNING LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING THROUGH WEDNESDAY...GIVEN DEEP MOISTURE WHICH SHOULD REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD. UPPER DIVERGENCE MOVING OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS ON WEDNESDAY WILL ALSO PROVIDE A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. FOR THE SHORT TERM...THERE IS SOME QUESTION AS TO HOW WELL THE ETA IS HANDLING THE WEAK UPPER LOW SEEN ON WATER VAPOR IMAGERY OVER THE SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. THE ETA TAKES THIS FEATURE OFF TO THE NE... YET SHOWS A CENTER OF UPWARD VERTICAL MOTION OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING WITH WIDESPREAD PRECIP. IT WOULD BE NICE IF THIS WERE TO VERIFY...BUT I AM NOT READY TO COMMIT TO LIKELY PRECIP CHANCES ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA E OF THE MOUNTAINS. WILL PROBABLY BREAK OFF SOME OF THE COUNTIES NEAR CLT AND PUT IN A LIKELY PRECIP CHANCE THIS EVENING TO ACCOUNT FOR STORMS DRIFTING N FROM THE SC MIDLANDS...BUT WILL WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO DECIDE WHICH ONES. FOR THE REST OF THE AREA...WILL KEEP JUST SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS EVENING. FOR TUESDAY...THE QUESTION IS HOW HIGH TO GO WITH THE CHANCE OF PRECIP. CURRENT SET OF ZONES HAS 60/50 PERCENT WHILE LATEST FWC GUIDANCE SHOWS ONLY 40/30 PERCENT CHANCE FOR TUESDAY. WILL PROBABLY LOWER THE PRECIP CHANCE EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS TO 40 PERCENT... THINKING THAT MOST OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL DO SO LATE IN THE DAY...MAINLY IN THE EVENING. FOR WEDNESDAY... LIKELY PRECIP LOOKS GOOD. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...WILL GENERALLY ACCEPT FWC GUIDANCE...BUT WILL PROBABLY LEAN TOWARD THE HIGHER END. ...PRELIM NUMBERS... AVL 64/84/65/80 3556 CLT 68/90/69/85 4446 GSP 68/90/68/85 3446 .GSP...NONE. MOORE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 26, 5:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
525 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
524 PM CANTON NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/26/00 HAYWOOD FROM GARY STEVENSON-WLOS
TV METEOROLOGIST IN
ASHEVILLE
RBNNearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.