Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 7:37 PM EST for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 23 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 7:37 PM EST (00:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 8:00 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenville County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 7:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Marietta, SC | A large limb, 3 to 4 inches thick and 10 feet long, was blown off a tree and fell through the windshield of a minivan. The limb speared the van, landing between the two front seat occupants. |
| Nov 9, 7:50 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Greenville, SC | Downed trees blocked two lanes of traffic at Rutherford Road and Poinsett Hwy. |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1187 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 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 100038 SVRGSP SCC045-100100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 737 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 800 PM EST * AT 737 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BREVARD TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANDERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MARIETTA AT 740 PM EST TRAVELERS REST AT 745 PM EST GREENVILLE AT 750 PM EST MAULDIN AT 750 PM EST SIMPSONVILLE AT 750 PM EST FOUNTAIN INN AT 800 PM EST PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DAMAGING WINDS. $$
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 Nov 9, 3:16 PM EST, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 3:16 PM EST, 4 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 316 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000 SFC LOW NEAR SWRN INDIANA MOVING NNE WITH TRAILING COLD FRONT ENTERING E TN AND NW GA. STILL HAVE CONSIDERABLE BAND OF WARM CONVEYOR BELT PRECIP OVER MUCH OF THE CWA...BUT IS SLIDING SLOWLY EAST. FAR SW CORNER IS STARTING TO BREAK OUT. GREATEST PRESSURE FALLS...LOW-LEVEL CONVERGENCE...LAPSE RATES...POT VORT ADV AND DIFF VORT ADV ALL CENTERED IN E TN AND KY...BUT DOES GRAZE FAR WRN NC LATE THIS AFTN. ANY POTENTIAL SVR THREAT WILL LIKELY BE DAMAGING WINDS IN OUR TN BORDER COUNTIES THROUGH 00Z. AIRMASS EAST OF MTNS...ALTHOUGH SUFFICIENTLY MOIST IN LOW-LEVELS IS WELL CAPPED AND STABLE. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ERN ZONES...EXPECT JUST SCT SHRA AND TSRA THROUGH EARLY EVENING. WILL WORD AS PRECIP ENDING IN THE ERN ZONES. ALTHOUGH FRONT WILL LIKELY SLOW DOWN AS IT ENCOUNTERS HIGHER TERRAIN...DRY AIR SWEEPS ACROSS CWA IN THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS THIS EVENING. WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR SFC FLOW TO VEER AROUND TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST EAST OF THE MTNS LATE TONIGHT BEFORE SIGNIFICANTLY DRIER AND COOLER AIR FILTERS IN. WINDS PICK UP FRIDAY WITH SUBSIDENCE AND MIXING BEFORE SFC RIDGE BUILDS IN FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. SHOULD BE A PLEASANT AND DRY NEXT FEW DAYS WITH LARGE BUT SEASONABLE DIURNAL RANGES IN TEMP. SUNDAY AND MONDAY WILL BE DRY WITH UPR RIDGE MOVING OVERHEAD THEN FLATTENING. SOME MOISTURE STREAMS EAST IN ZONAL FLOW TUESDAY AND COULD SEE SOME PRECIP AROUND...BUT WILL ONLY MENTION SILENT 20 POP AT THIS TIME. HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES DO FALL HOWEVER IN ADVANCE OF DEVELOPING BROAD TROUGH...SO TEMPS SLIGHTLY COOLER EACH DAY. FCSTID = 26 GSP 50 66 37 65 / 30 0 0 0 AND 49 67 36 66 / 30 0 0 0 CLT 52 64 35 64 / 60 0 0 0 HKY 50 63 33 63 / 40 0 0 0 AVL 43 57 30 58 / 40 0 0 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MOYER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 9, 7:05 PM EST, 32 minutes before
NCZ051-052-058-059-062>064-100100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 705 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COU NTIES FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 797... IN NORTH CAROLINA... GRAHAM...HAYWOOD...JACKSON...MACON...SWAIN...TRANSYLVANIA... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES. HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 7:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Pickens | 32 min |
| Nov 9, 7:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 8:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Spartanburg | 45 min |
| Nov 9, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.