Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2000, 5:19 PM EDT for Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
- Jul 6, 2000, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hot Spgs, NC |
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
879 WUUS52 KGSP 062119 SVRGSP NCC115-062200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 519 PM EDT THU JUL 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 517 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL...OR ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF ALLENSTAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALLENSTAND AT 525 PM EDT HOT SPRINGS AT 535 PM EDT WALNUT AT 550 PM EDT MARSHALL AT 558 PM EDT * THIS THUNDERSTORM IS ALSO ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN. VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN FALLING ACROSS NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY FOR MOST OF THE LATE AFTERNOON. THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM CELL MAY PRODUCE RAPID RISES ON STREAMS AND CREEKS...MAKING A FLASH FLOOD WARNING NECESSARY. 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. $$ 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 Jul 6, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 230 PM EDT THU JUL 6 2000 BUILDING HEIGHTS ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE SHORT RANGE PERIOD WILL DO LITTLE TO DRY OUT THE PERSISTENT MOISTURE AT 850 MB AND BELOW ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SURFACE BOUNDARY HAS PUSHED INTO NC IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN PARTS BUT CONTINUES TO MAKE LITTLE PROGRESS NEARER THE MOUNTAINS. RESIDUAL EVENING POPS SHOULD ONLY BE NEEDED FARTHER SOUTHWEST...NEARER THE 850 MB THETA E RIDGE AND DOWNSTREAM FROM ONGOING CONVECTION IN ERN TN. THE ETA MODEL IS THE MOST AGGRESSIVE AT SENDING EAST TO SOUTHEAST WEAK UPSLOPE FLOW BACK AGAINST THE SRN APPALACHIANS AS THE SFC HIGH BUILDS DOWN INTO THE GREAT LAKES THROUGH THE PERIOD. ALL MODELS...HOWEVER...KEEP SOMETHING OF A MOISTURE POOL OVER THE AREA WITH THE BEST MOISTURE AND LIFT COMBINATION ALONG THE SRN MTN EASTERN ESCARPMENT FROM LATE FRI THROUGH SATURDAY. ONLY THE ETA SUGGESTS AN INVERTED TROUGH UP THE SRN MTNS WITH WEAK ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE THROUGH THE MOISTURE. WILL THUS INTRODUCE 30 POPS FROM LATE FRI THROUGH SAT ACROSS FOOTHILL AND MOUNTAIN ZONES AND RELEGATE PIEDMONT TO A SILENT 20 POP. FWC MOS NUMBERS LOOK MORE REASONABLE THROUGH SAT THAN PREVIOUS DAYS. AIRMASS COOLS SLIGHTLY AND ANY RESIDUAL UPSLOPE CLOUD COVER AGAINST ERN MTNS MAY LIMIT MINS FURTHER ON SAT. ...PRELIM NUMBERS... FCSTID = 33 GSP 70 91 69 87 / 20 30 30 30 AND 70 91 69 88 / 20 30 30 30 CLT 71 88 68 87 / 10 20 20 20 HKY 70 86 66 85 / 10 20 20 20 AVL 67 83 64 83 / 20 30 30 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.