Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 8:01 PM EDT for Polk County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 11, 2000, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Polk County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 8:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Tryon, 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 391 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 120001 SVRGSP NCC149-120030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 801 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 801 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER COLUMBUS... MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MILL SPRING AT 825 PM EDT PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT L|IGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. $$ MOYER/BRUCE
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 11, 5:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 5:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 513 PM EDT TUE JUL 11 2000 WILL UPDATE N MTN ZONES FOR CATEGORICAL RAIN WITH TSTMS THIS EVENING BASED ON LATEST STLT AND RADAR TRENDS. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. BRUCE
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.