Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 24, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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
- Sep 24, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1175 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 242102 SVRGSP NCC089-242130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 500 PM EDT SUN SEP 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HENDERSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES NORTH OF HENDERSONVILLE... OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOUNTAIN HOME...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HENDERSONVILLE AT 505 PM EDT FLAT ROCK AT 515 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 Sep 24, 2:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 24, 2:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 233 PM EDT SUN SEP 24 2000 CONVECTION ACROSS NC MTNS DISSIPATED AS IT MOVED INTO MORE STABLE AND DOWNSLOPED ATMOS. CONVECTION DOING A LITTLE BETTER ACROSS UPSTATE WHERE ATMOS MORE UNSTABLE. WEAK UPPER WAVE MOVES THRU TONIGHT AS SFC FNT BEGINS SAGGING SWD. FNT GETS CLOSE TO CWFA BUT SHOULD STALL JUST TO OUR NORTH. BEST CHC FOR PRECIP TONIGHT CONTINUES IN THE MTNS WITH BEST MOISTURE AND UPSLOPE FLOW. BUT COULD HAVE CONVECTION ELSEWHERE AS WELL. BEST CHC MON AS STRONGER WAVE AND SFC LOW MOVE THRU. GOOD WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY SO SVR A POSSIBILITY. TIMING OF SFC FNT UNCERTAIN SO WILL LEAVE POP IN ALL AREAS. HIER POP OVER NC WERE COMMA HEAD MOVES ACROSS. DRY AND COOLER TUE. FCSTID = 81 GSP 70 81 57 73 / 40 70 40 10 AND 70 81 57 74 / 40 70 40 10 CLT 69 82 57 72 / 40 70 50 20 HKY 68 78 55 70 / 50 70 50 10 AVL 65 72 53 65 / 60 80 50 10 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 40 min |
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.