Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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
- Aug 7, 2000, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 833 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 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 072222 SVRGSP NCC027-072300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 620 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 620 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES WEST OF LENOIR...OR ABOUT OVER GAMEWELL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LENOIR AT 630 PM EDT HUDSON AT 640 PM EDT SAWMILLS AT 645 PM EDT GRANITE FALLS AT 650 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. $$
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 7, 2:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 2:31 PM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 231 PM EDT MON AUG 7 2000 SCATTERED CONVECTION ACROSS THE MTNS WITH MORE ISOLATED CONVECTION ELSEWHERE. RIGHT NOW EXPECT TO HAVE HIER CHC EVENING POP IN MTNS THAN PRELIM NUMBERS BELOW. MAY USE HIER CHC POPS ELSEWHERE IF CONVECTION MORE WIDESPREAD BEFORE ISSUANCE. PATTERN CHANGES LITTLE THRU WEDNESDAY. MAINLY ZONAL FLOW TO OUR NORTH. SOME SHORT WAVES MOVE THRU THE FLOW BUT ENERGY MOSTLY NORTH OF THE AREA. INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN HIGH AS TEMPS/DEW POINTS CHANGE LITTLE. GOOD LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES AS WELL. CHC POPS WILL BE NEEDED FOR AFT CONVECTION. PRECIP CHANCES LIKELY HIER DURING THE EXTENDED AS A FRONTAL SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE NORTH. AS MENTIONED ABOVE TEMPS/DEW POINTS CHANGE LITTLE THRU THE SHORT RANGE PERIOD. HEAT INDEX WILL AGAIN APPROACH 105 TUESDAY...BUT SHOULD FALL SHORT OF THE THREE HOURS REQUIRED FOR HEAT ADVISORY. COOLER FOR THE EXTENDED WITH LOWER HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES. ...PRELIM NUMBERS... GSP 72 95 72 95 / 20 30 20 30 AND 72 95 72 95 / 20 30 20 30 CLT 72 94 72 94 / 20 30 20 30 HKY 72 94 72 94 / 20 30 20 30 AVL 67 90 67 88 / 20 30 20 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 7, 5:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
511 PM EDT MON AUG 07 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
448 PM 5 SE TAYLORSVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
08/07/00 ALEXANDER TWO TREES DOWN ON ROAD
JUST NORTH OF HIDDENITE.
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.