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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

April 17, 2000Burke County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 17, 2000, 3:22 PM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 38 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: Apr 17, 2000, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Burke County, NC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 17, 1:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

313 
WUUS52 KGSP 171923
SVRGSP
NCC023-172000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
322 PM EDT MON APR 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 322 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARION...OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF
  GLEN ALPINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GLEN ALPINE AT 330 PM EDT
  TABLE ROCK AT 335 PM EDT
  MORGANTON AT 345 PM EDT
  DREXEL AT 400 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.

$$

MOYER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery	23 min
Apr 17, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery	30 min
Apr 17, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	23 min
Apr 17, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.