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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 8, 2000Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 8:16 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Mecklenburg County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 349 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1787 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KGSP 090017
SVRGSP
NCC119-090100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
816 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 816 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF CHARLOTTE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF PINEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PINEVILLE AT 825 PM
  MATTHEWS AT 840 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.

$$
HG

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, 5 hours 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:29 PM EDT, 5 hours 47 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 8, 5:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
536 PM EDT TUE AUG 08 2000

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

515 PM     5 NE MOCKSVILLE           NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/08/00   DAVIE                          COUNTY REPORTS TREES AND
                                          POWER LINES DOWN ALONG
                                          HIGHWAY 158.

HG

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.