Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2000, 9:04 PM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2000, 9:04 PM EDT (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burke County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 9:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Rutherford College, NC | |
| Aug 25, 9:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Morganton, NC |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 1547 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 260103 SVRGSP NCC023-260145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 904 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 901 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF HICKORY...OR ABOUT OVER ICARD...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... THE HICKORY AIRPORT AT 915 PM EDT PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREaQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. A SECOND THUNDERSTORM NEAR MORGANTON MAY ALSO STRENGTHEN TO A SEVERE THUNDERTORM. $$ 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, 8:55 PM EDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 8:55 PM EDT, 9 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 855 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2000 CWA UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A FEW WEAK SHORTWAVES DROPPING SOUTHEAST THROUGH 09Z. RUC SHOWS GOOD 500 MB THERMAL TROUGH PERSISTING OVER THE AREA OVERNIGHT. GSO 00Z SOUNDING PRETTY UNSTABLE WITH CAPE AROUND 2200 J/KG AND TOTALS ABOUT 51. SFC TROUGH FROM NEAR GREENWOOD TO GSO HELPING TO FOCUS LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE...ALTHOUGH WEAK. ENOUGH UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT AND STEEPER LAPSE RATES ARE COMBINING WITH THIS WEAK CONVERGENCE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PIEDMONT OF NC. UPPER 60 DWPTS HAVE POOLED IN THE CLT AREA. PLAN TO KEEP SCATTERED PRECIP IN ZONES OVERNIGHT FOR FOOTHILL AND PIEDMONT COUNTIES WITH HIGHEST CHC IN NC. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MOYER
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 25, 7:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
751 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
736 PM VALE NC .50 INCH HAIL
08/25/00 LINCOLN SPOTTER REPORT OF MARBLE
SIZE HAIL
737 PM CAT SQUARE NC .50 INCH H AIL
08/25/00 LINCOLN MARBLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY AMATEUR RADIO
BWMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.