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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 9, 2000Cherokee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 8:35 PM EST for Cherokee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 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: Nov 9, 2000, 8:35 PM EST (01:35 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 9:15 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Cherokee County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 193 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 100136
SVRGSP
SCC021-100215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 915 PM EST

* AT 835 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  SPARTANBURG...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF THICKETTY...MOVING EAST AT
  35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  THICKETTY AT 840 PM EST
  GAFFNEY AT 845 PM EST
  BLACKSBURG AT 900 PM EST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 TO 100 MPH. THESE
WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE
HOMES AND SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE OR WIND-DRIVEN HAIL CAN
INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.

$$
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 Nov 9, 3:16 PM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 3:16 PM EST, 5 hours 19 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, 1 hour 30 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, 57 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

Local storm report, Nov 9, 8:01 PM EST, 34 minutes before

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

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

758 PM     GREENVILLE                SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   GREENVILLE                     TREES DOWN IN FAIR FOREST
                                          WAY OFF LAURENS RD IN
                                          GRXEENVILLE

BENTHALL

Local storm report, Nov 9, 8:15 PM EST, 20 minutes before

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

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

750 PM     2 N GREENVILLE            SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   GREENVILLE                     TREE BLOCKING 2 LANES OF
                                          TRAFFIC AT RUTHERFORD
                                          ROA*D AND POINSETT HIGHWAY

RBN

Local storm report, Nov 9, 8:35 PM EST, 0 minutes before

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

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

835 PM     INMAN                     SC   60 MPH
11/09/00   SPARTANBURG                    SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
                                          60 MPH WIND GUST.

830 PM     ENOREE                    SC   WIND DAMAGE
11/09/00   SPARTANBURG                    COUNTY 911 REPORTS POWER
                                          LINES BLOWN DOWN.

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, 7:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	23 min
Nov 9, 8:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens, Spartanburg	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000 Every 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.