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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 28, 2000Catawba County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2000, 7:35 PM EDT for Catawba County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 28, 2000, 7:35 PM EDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Catawba County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 28, 7:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Newton, NC
Jul 28, 7:45 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Newton, 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

992 
WUUS52 KGSP 282335
SVRGSP
NCC035-290015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
735 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CATAWBA COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 735 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF HICKORY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HICKORY AT 750 PM EDT
  CONOVER AT 755 PM EDT
  CLAREMONT AT 800 PM EDT
  CATAWBA AT 810 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.

$$
JAT

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 28, 2:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 53 minutes before

SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028-
029-290031-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
242 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

SCATTERED CONVECTIVE COVERAGE TO PERSIST INTO TONIGHT AS SHORTWAVE
INFLUENCES REGION. AREA IN NVA SAT AND SAT NIGHT...WITH FRONT STILL
OFF TO W. LOW LEVEL FLOW STRENGTHENS AND BACKS SAT PRODUCING A
SLIGHT UPSLOPE COMPONENT. ENOUGH MOISTURE BELOW 700 MB FOR 30 POP
AREA WIDE SAT AND SAT NIGHT. BY SUN FRONT AND ASSOCIATED LOW LEVEL
CONVERGENCE/MOISTURE MOVE INTO E TN. NGM AGAIN TRIES TO DEEPEN
MOISTURE ON DAY TWO...LIKE IT HAS THE PAST TWO DAYS. WILL INCREASE
POPS SUN...BUT NOT BY MUCH. NO CHANGE IN AIR MASS...SO TEMPERATURES
CLOSE TO PERSISTENCE IN ORDER...WITH CHANGES SUN-TUE AS REMAINS OF
FRONT NEAR MOUNTAINS AND CLOUD COVER LIMITS DIURNAL TEMPERATURE
RANGE.

FCSTID = 7
GSP   68  90  69  89 /  40  30  30  40
AND   69  91  69  90 /  40  30  30  40
CLT   67  89  68  88 /  40  30  30  40
HKY   67  88  68  88 /  40  30  30  40
AVL   65  85  65  84 /  50  30  30  40

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 28, 5:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
536 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

530 PM     4 S GREER                 SC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   GREENVILLE                     DIME SIZE HAIL AT OFF
                                          DUTY METEOROLOGISTS HOUSE

NEAL

Local storm report, Jul 28, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
551 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

545 PM     5 SE GREENVILLE           SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/00   GREENVILLE                     50 TO 60 MPH WINDS
                                          ESTIMATED AT I-85 AND
                                          I-385 BY AMATEUR RADIO

NEAL

Local storm report, Jul 28, 6:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
603 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

600 PM     5 SE GREENVILLE           SC   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/28/00   GREENVILLE                     GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
                                          REPORTED ON AMATEUR RADIO
                                          ALONG I-385 JUST SOUTH OF
                                          I-85

NEAL

Local storm report, Jul 28, 6:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
606 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

559 PM     5 SE GREENVILLE           SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/00   GREENVILLE                     METAL SHED DESTROYED. NWS
                                          EMPLOYEE REPORT.

TOMKO

Local storm report, Jul 28, 6:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
612 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

520 PM     10 E GREENVILLE           SC   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/00   GREENVILLE                     NUMEROUS TREES DOWN NEAR
                                          MICHELIN PLANT AT I-85
                                          AND PELHAM ROAD

NEAL

Local storm report, Jul 28, 7:20 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
720 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

705 PM     OVER MOCKSVILLE           NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/00   DAVIE                          HAM SPOTTER AND DAVIE EOC
                                          REPORTED ONE LARGE OAK
                                          TREE DOWN AND PEA SIZE
                                          HAIL.

DHR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan	44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.