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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 7, 2000Iredell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2000, 12:48 AM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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 7, 2000, 12:48 AM EDT (04:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2000, 1:30 AM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Iredell County, NC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 7, 1:00 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EStatesville, NC
Jul 7, 1:30 AM EDTThunderstorm Wind 60 ETroutman, 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 574 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
574 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1322 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KGSP 070449
SVRGSP
NCC097-070530-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1248 AM EDT FRI JUL 7 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  IREDELL COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 130 AM EDT

* AT 1248 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF STATESVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST
  OF TURNERSBURG...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  STATESVILLE AT 110 AM EDT
  TROUTMAN AT 130 AM EDT

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOU-LD BE ALERT FOR
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 1:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPIredell, Mecklenburg48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North 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.