Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT for Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2000, 6:08 PM EDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1404 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 192209 SVRGSP NCC115-192245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 608 PM EDT WED JUL 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 608 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHALL...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTH OF HOT SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALLENSTAND AT 615 PM EDT WHITEROCK AT 615 PM EDT WALNUT AT 620 PM EDT MARSHALL AT 625 PM EDT MARS HILL AT 635 PM 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. $$ MCAVOY
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 19, 3:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028- 029-200204- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 304 PM EDT WED JUL 19 2000 EVEN THOUGH SHORTWAVE MOVG THRU FCST AREA...CONVECTION DISSIPATING. EXPECT SOME REDEVELOPMENT OVER W ZONES WHERE SFC HEATING MAKING AREA LESS STABLE...AND OVER FAR E ZONES AS SYSTEM MOVES INTO LESS STABLE AIRMASS. EXPECT MOST CONVECTION TO BE OUT OF AREA BY SUNSET SO HAVE LOWERED POPS TO 20 PCNT FOR TONIGHT FCST. ONCE THIS SYSTEM E OF AREA...DO NOT EXPECT HI POPS UNTIL FRI NIGHT INTO SAT AS NEXT SIG SHRTWV DROPS SE INTO CWA. LATER PDS REMAIN UNSETTLED. FCSTID = 77 GSP 65 90 66 90 / 20 0 0 20 AND 65 92 67 91 / 20 0 0 20 CLT 65 89 66 89 / 20 0 0 20 HKY 63 88 66 88 / 20 0 0 20 AVL 62 84 64 85 / 20 0 0 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.