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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 9, 2000Laurens County, Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 8:00 PM EST for Laurens County, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min. 3 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, 8:00 PM EST (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 8:45 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Laurens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 9, 8:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Enoree, SC	Power lines were blown down.
Nov 9, 8:35 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Inman, SC	Trees were blown down by spotter estimated 60 mph winds. One tree crushed a storage building and its contents.
Nov 9, 8:40 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Pauline, SC	Some trees were blown down, with at least one falling onto a house.

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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 382 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 563 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KGSP 100101
SVRGSP
SCC059-083-100145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
800 PM EST THU NOV 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
  NORTHERN LAURENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 845 PM EST

* AT 800 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS FROM 13 MILES SOUTH OF
  COLUMBUS TO 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF ABBEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WOODRUFF AT 805 PM EST
  BOILING SPRINGS SC AT 810 PM EST
  SPARTANBURG AT 815 PM EST
  CHESNEE AT 820 PM EST
  LAURENS AT 825 PM EST

THIS RAPIDLY MOVING LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CAUSE WINDS FROM
60 TO 100 MPH...AND MAY MOVE THROUGH VERY QUICKLY WITH LITTLE
THUNDER...LIGHTNING...OR RAIN.

$$

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 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 3:16 PM EST, 4 hours 44 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, 55 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 COUNTIES FROM
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 797...

IN NORTH CAROLINA...

GRAHAM...HAYWOOD...JACKSON...MACON...SWAIN...TRANSYLVANIA...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THESE COUNTIES.

HG

Local storm report, Nov 9, 7:38 PM EST, 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
738 PM EST THU NOV 09 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

735 PM     CLEMSON AND CENTRAL       SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   PICKENS                        TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN

TERRY BENTHALL

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, 7:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	23 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.