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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 25, 2000Lincoln County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT for Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 25, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 261 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
839 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 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.

882 
WUUS52 KGSP 252331
SVRGSP
NCC109-260015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
730 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 730 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF LINCOLNTON...OR ABOUT OVER VALE...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LINCOLNTON AT 750 PM EDT
  CROUSE AT 800 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.

$$
JONES

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 25, 3:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 3:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
SCZ001>014-019-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-GAZ010-017-018-026-028-
029-260055-

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
340 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2000

I PLAN TO INTRODUCE SMALL POP FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS
EVENING ACROSS ALL OF OUR AREA....EXCEPT IN SOUTHERN AREAS WHERE I
WILL RUN ALL NIGHT.  LAPSE RATES AND INSTABILITY STILL HIGH...SHORT
WAVE WITH OMEGA AND DIVERGENCE SUPPORT COMING THROUGH BY LATE
EVENING AND SOME UPSLOPE HELP ALSO WITH EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW IN
BOUNDARY LAYER. ALREADY BY MID AFTERNOON SHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING
THROUGH MUCH OF THE NC FOTHILLS AND ALSO AND ALSO UPSTREAM OVER
SOUTHEAST VA.

BY SATURDAY MORNING WINDS SHOULD TURN TO THE SOUTH AND WE SHOULD
LOSE MOST UPSLOPE COMPONENTS FROM THE WIND. LITTLE FORCING AND
DIMINISHING MOISTURE FOR SHORT TIME SO IT SHOULD BE PLEASANT DAY.

AN MCS FORMING OVER ILLINOIS ON SATURDAY...SHOULD DIE AS IT SPREADS
IN FROM NORTHWEST SUNDAY MORNING. LEFT OVER SHORT WAVE...INCREASING
MOISTURE AND UPPER DIVERGENCE SUPPORT WILL GIVE US ANOTHER CHANCE OF
SHOWERS ON SUNDAY. AVN/MRF WANT TO SLOW THIS FEATURE DOWN AND HAVE
IT COMING IN MONDAY...BUT I WILL GO WITH THE BETTER PHYSICS AND
RESOLUTION OF THE ETA MODEL AT THIS TIME.

EXTENDED PERIOD SHOULD BE DOMINATED BY HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT SO I WILL
KEEP IT DRY...CHANCE OF RAIN 20 PERCENT OR LESS. TEMPS SHOULD WARM
BACK TO NORMAL...OR A LITTLE ABOVE.

FCSTID = 69
GSP   65  87  68  88 /  30  10  10  30
AND   66  88  67  88 /  30  10  10  30
CLT   65  87  67  87 /  30  10  10  30
HKY   64  85  64  86 /  20  10  20  30
AVL   60  83  61  83 /  20  10  20  30

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

RBN

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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.