Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 2:04 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 4, 2000, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2000, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oconee County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Salem, SC | Five trees and a few power lines were blown down, mainly in town. |
| Aug 4, 2:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Salem, 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 821 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 041804 SVRGSP SCC073-041845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 204 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 204 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALHALLA...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF SALEM...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SENECA AT 245 PM EDT PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SpHOULD 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 Aug 4, 9:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 9:15 AM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 915 AM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000 OUTSIDE OF SOME CLEANUP OF THE EXTENDED...NO REAL CHANGES XPCTD IN 10 AM PACKAGE. MAY TWEAK MINS TO BE CONSISTENT WITH THIS MORNINGS LOWS. THUNDERSTORM THREAT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING REMAINS. WHILE FLOODING IS OUR PRIMARY CONCERN...THE MID LEVEL DRYING CREATES HIER POTENTIAL FOR WIND GUSTS. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. DICARLO
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 12:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
NCZ033>035-048>056-058-059-062>070-SCZ001>010-012>014-050100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1245 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000 THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN ...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. WHILE MOST OF THESE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO MEET SEVERE STORM CRITERIA...IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A FEW MIGHT REACH SEVERE LEVELS AS WELL AS PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. PEOPLE...PARTICULARLY MOTORISTS SHOULD BE ALERT TO THUNDERSTORM HAZARDS AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP OVER THE AREA THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. DICARLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 64 min |
| Aug 4, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 44 min |
Nearby
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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.