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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 4, 2000Abbeville County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2000, 5:31 PM EDT for Abbeville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired: Aug 4, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Abbeville County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 4, 5:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Lowndesville, SC	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.

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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 2:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before

SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028-
029-041334-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
240 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 2000

STRONG CONVECTION MOVING E OF FORECAST AREA WITH SHORTWAVE. STILL
EXPECT SCT TSTMS/SHWRS OVERNIGHT SINCE DEEP MOISTURE AND UNSTABLE
FLOW CONTINUES...BUT AREA WAS PRETTY WELL WORKED OVER THIS AFTERNOON
INTO EARLY EVE AND EXPECT CONVECTION TO STAY WEAK. WILL LOWER POPS
AND REMOVE EVENING WORDING...REST OF FORECAST OK.

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

RB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 12:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 46 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

Local storm report, Aug 4, 2:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
244 PM EDT FRI AUG 04 2000

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

225 PM     SALEM                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
08/04/00   OCONEE                         5 LARGE TREES DOWN. POWER
                                          LINES DOWN.

MCAVOY

Special weather statement, Aug 4, 4:07 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 4, 1:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	115 min
Aug 4, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	41 min
Aug 4, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	64 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.