Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2000, 1:32 AM EDT for Cherokee County, South Carolina; Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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 15, 2000, 1:32 AM EDT (05:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2000, 2:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cleveland County, NC, Cherokee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:31 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 15, 2:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Gaffney, 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 150533 SVRGSP NCC045-SCC021-150615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 132 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CLEVELAND COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA CHEROKEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 215 AM EDT * AT 132 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUTHERFORDTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOORESBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BOILING SPRINGS NC AT 135 AM EDT EARL AT 145 AM EDT GAFFNEY AT 150 AM EDT BLACKSBURG AT 155 AM EDT SARATT AT 210 AM 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 Jul 14, 9:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 9:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 2 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
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 14, 11:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1141 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1136 PM MARS HILL NC WIND DAMAGE
07/14/00 MADISON EOC REPRTED A FEW TREES
DOWN
RBNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Yancey | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Severe 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.