Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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.
- 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
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.