Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 118, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 11:38 PM EDT for Buncombe County, Yancey County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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 14, 2000, 11:38 PM EDT (03:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2000, 12:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buncombe County, NC, Yancey County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:41 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 14, 11:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Weaverville, 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 2167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1011 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 150339 SVRGSP NCC021-199-150415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1138 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... YANCEY COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BUNCOMBE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1215 AM EDT * AT 1138 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF BURNSVILLE TO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF ASHEVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BUSICK AT 1145 PM EDT WEAVERVILLE AT 1150 PM EDTc 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. $$
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 14, 9:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 9:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028- 029-150139- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 930 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000 LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS/TSTMS STILL DROPPING SOUTHEAST THROUGH WEST VIRGINIA AND EASTERN KENTUCKY. LATEST SURFACE ANALYSIS WAS SHOWING A TROF FROM GREENVILLE AND SPARTANBURG TO HICKORY AND NORTH WILKESBORO...WITH RATHER STABLE AIR WEST OF THE TROF. EAST OF THE TROF THE AIR WAS MORE UNSTABLE...BUT THE STATESVILLE AND SALISBURY AREAS HAVE BEEN WORKED OVER BY SOME PRETTY BIG STORMS EARLIER THIS EVENING. WITH THIS IN MIND I WILL CONTINUE POPS AS THEY ARE...BUT WILL REMOVE ANY MENTION OF SEVERE FROM ZONE. I WILL ALSO REMOVE ANY WORDING TIME LATER PRECIP IN. REST OF FORECAST LOOKS OK. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RBN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 1:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 43 min |
Nearby
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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.