Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 5:26 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
- May 10, 2000, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 5:33 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Clt Douglas Arpt, NC |
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 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -549 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
616 WUUS52 KGSP 102126 SVRGSP NCC119-102215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 526 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 526 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF GASTONIA...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF PAW CREEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PAW CREEK AT 530 PM EDT CHARLOTTE AT 555 PM EDT NEWELL AT 605 PM EDT MATTHEWS AT 615 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. $$
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 May 10, 2:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 215 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND CONVERGENCE HIGH ATTM ACROSS CWFA...BUT CONVECTION FORMING MAINLY TO OUR SOUTH AND EAST. ONCE AGAIN...WILL ADD EVE POP IF NECESSARY. ATMOS DRIES OUT AFTER FROPA THIS EVENING. CLEAR AND COOLER TONIGHT. SUNNY BUT STILL A LITTLE ABOVE NORMAL THURSDAY. DRY WARM FNT MOVES NWD THRU THE AREA THU NITE WITH SOME CLOUDS. THEN VERY WARM AND DRY AIR MASS RETURNS TO THE CWFA FOR FRI AND SAT. DRY COLD FNT WILL DROP TEMPS BACK TOWARD NORMAL FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. AVL 50/80/56/87 0000 CLT 53/85/60/91 0000 GSP 55/85/61/90 0000 .GSP...NONE. RWH
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.