Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 5:12 PM EDT for Jackson County, Transylvania County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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 8, 2000, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, NC, Transylvania County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 935 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 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 082113 SVRGSP NCC099-175-082200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 512 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA SOUTHWESTERN TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BREVARD...OR ABOUT OVER SAPPHIRE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAKE TOXAWAY AT 520 PM EDT ROSMAN AT 540 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 8, 2:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 229 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000 SHORT TERM...CONVECTION GOING AGAIN IN MTNS AND FOOTHILLS. ISOLATED ATTM ELSEWHERE. SOME OF THE TSRA ARE QUITE STRONG AND ISOLATED SVR POSSIBLE. WILL ADD EVENING POP. MDL DATA LACKING THIS AFTERNOON. ONLY ABLE TO LOOK AT ETA AND FWC GUIDANCE. LITTLE CHANGE THROUGH THU. UPR FLOW RELATIVELY ZONAL SO SHORT WAVES AND MCS REMNANTS REMAIN TO OUR NORTH. SOME OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES MAY MAKE IT TO OUR NRN SECTIONS THOUGH. HIGH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND ATMOSPHERIC INSTABILITY CONTINUE AS WELL. LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE PROVIDED BY WLY WINDS IN MTNS AND LEE TROF. HOWEVER TROF MAINLY SETS UP OVER OUR ERN SECTIONS. SOME STORMS WILL MAKE IT INTO THE DOWNSLOPE AREAS...BUT LEAST LIKELY THERE. FWC HIGHS HAVE BEEN A LITTLE HIGH RECENTLY SO TWEAKED THEM DOWN A LITTLE. TEMPS WILL SEE LITTLE FLUCTUATION AS THICKNESSES AND H85 TEMPS REMAIN FAIRLY CONSTANT. BEST CHC OF RAIN FOR WHOLE CWFA WILL BE FRIDAY AS UPPER TROF DIGS PUSHING SFC FNT INTO THE AREA. WILL LEAVE POP IN SATURDAY GIVEN LINGERING FNT AND MOISTURE. DRY SUNDAY. ...PRELIM NUMBERS... GSP 73 94 73 94 / 20 30 20 30 AND 72 94 72 94 / 20 30 20 30 CLT 72 94 72 94 / 20 30 20 30 HKY 71 94 71 94 / 20 30 20 30 AVL 67 88 67 87 / 20 40 20 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 5:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Transylvania | 115 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.