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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

September 24, 2000Henderson County, North Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2000-09-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 26 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 2000-09-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 24, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPPolk40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.