Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 11:47 PM EDT for Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 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 10, 2000, 11:47 PM EDT (03:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2000, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenwood County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 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 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1999 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 110348 SVRGSP SCC047-110445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1147 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENWOOD COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1245 AM EDT * AT 1147 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 15 MILES NORTH OF ABBEVILLE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF WARE SHOALS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WARE SHOALS AT 1155 PM EDT COKESBURY AT 1215 AM EDT CORONACA AT 1230 AM EDT GREENWOOD AT 1235 AM 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 10, 9:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 9:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 920 PM EDT THU AUG 10 2000 ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION CONTINUES TO FIRE IN VICINITY OF WEAK OUTFLOWS AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE...MAINLY ALONG INTERSTATE 85 CORRIDOR. 18Z MESO ETA SUGGESTED NW FLOW VORT OVERNIGHT WOULD REACH APPALACHIANS...BUT NO CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED UPSTREAM IN THE DRIER AIR AND MOISTURE IS NOT VERY DEEP. WILL PROBABLY NEED TO HOLD ONTO UPSTATE SC/NE GA POPS THROUGH AT LEAST MIDNIGHT WITH DEWPOINTS STILL IN THE LOWER 70S IN THIS AREA AND WEAK OUTFLOWS TRIGGERING ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT. TEMPERATURE RANGES ASSUME CONTINUED SOUTHWARD INFILTRATION OF LOWER DEWPxOINTS. NO ADJUSTMENTS EXPECTED. WILL ADJUST CLOUDINESS FOR AC/CI ADVECTING EASTWARD FROM SE TN. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
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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.