Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 4:16 PM EDT for Elbert County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 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 23, 2000, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Elbert County, GA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 4:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bowman, GA | |
| Jul 23, 5:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Elberton, GA |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 232017 SVRGSP GAC105-232115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 416 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ELBERT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 416 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 13 MILES SOUTH OF CARNESVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF BOWMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BOWMAN AT 425 PM EDT DEWY ROSE AT 435 PM EDT ELBERTON AT 450 PM EDT RUCKERSVILLE AT 455 PM EDT FORTSONIA AT 505 PM EDT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 TO 100 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES AND SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE OR WIND-DRIVEN HAIL CA-N INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. $$
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 23, 3:51 PM EDT, 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:51 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028- 029-240113- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED HKY POPS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 300 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 2000 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LINING UP OVER THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND NORTHERN GEORGIA AND WILL SPREAD EAST AND NORTHEAST THROUGH MUCH THE CWA THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. MODELS ARE SHOWING WEAK LOW PRESSURE IN THE LOWER PORTION OF THE ATMOSPHERE MEANDERING AROUND CENTRAL GEORGIA THROUGH MONDAY AND THEN WEAKENING SLOWLY INTO TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. AN UPPER TROF JUST TO OUR WEST AND STRONG UPPER JET FROM THE TENNESSEE VALLEY TO THE NEW ENGLAND COAST...WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY UPLIFT AND FORCING TO CONTINUE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INTO MONDAY. MONDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY THE UPPER FEATURES GRADUALLY WEAKENING SO THE THREAT OF CONTINUED WIDE SPREAD RAINFALL WILL DIMINISH. ALTHOUGH A FEW SEVERE STORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING... THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE CWA MAY BE FOR FLASH FLOODING FROM REPEATED HITS FROM HEAVY THUNDERSTORM RAINS THAT TOTAL UP OVERNIGHT AND MONDAY. WITH OUR CONVERGENT LOW LEVEL EAST FLOW...AREAS ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS SHOULD ESPECIALLY MONITOR FOR PROBLEMS IF STORMS PERSIST IN THEIR AREA. TEMPS WILL CONTINUE SIMILAR TONIGHT AND MONDAY AS TO WHAT WE SAW TODAY. HIGHS WILL WARM A LITTLE DAY BY DAY THROUGH MID WEEK. FCSTID = 69 GSP 70 84 69 85 / 80 70 50 40 AND 70 86 70 88 / 80 70 50 40 CLT 69 82 68 84 / 70 80 50 40 HKY 67 75 65 79 / 80 70 50 40 AVL 66 77 66 80 / 80 70 50 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 11:42 AM EDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
GAZ010-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-019-232030- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1142 AM EDT SUN JUL 23 2000 A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF OUR COUNTY WARNING AREA...ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 85. PERHAPS A BIGGER THREAT IN THE LONG RUN WILL BE THAT OF FLASH FLOODING IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE REPEATED HITS FROM SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS... THIS AFTERNOON...TONIGHT AND MONDAY. WITH A WEAK AREA LOW PRESSURE TO OUR SOUTH AND A SUPPORTING UPPER TROF NEARLY STATIONARY OVERHEAD...THUNDERSTORMS MAY POP UP ANYWHERE AND AT ANY TIME...IN THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IF THREATENING CONDITIONS DEVELOP. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. RBN
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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.