Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 5:13 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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
- May 13, 2000, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cleveland County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 13, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Polkville, NC | |
| May 13, 5:37 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Belwood, 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
810 WUUS52 KGSP 132113 SVRGSP NCC045-132200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 513 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLEVELAND COUNTY IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 513 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUTHERFORDTON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF CASAR...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CASAR AT 515 PM EDT POLKVILLE 525 PM EDT LAWNDALE AT 525 PM EDT BELWOOD AT 530 PM EDT FALLSTON AT 535 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. $$ MCAVOY
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 13, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 215 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 MODELS ARE FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH OVERALL WEATHER FEATURES DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS. UPPER RIDGE AXIS ALONG THE EAST COAST THIS MORNING WILL MOVE OFF TO THE EAST AS A LARGE UPPER VORTEX ROTATES ACROSS EASTERN CANADA. THIS BIG UPPER LOW WILL MOVE SLOWLY ON SUNDAY INTO MONDAY...KEEPING A RATHER BROAD UPPER TROF OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES THROUGH MONDAY...ALLOWING OUR TEMPS TO RETURN TO MORE SEASONABLE LEVELS. MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM WILL BE THE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NEAR TERM...AND TO A LESSER EXTENT...TEMPS. KGSP RADAR SHOWS A FEW TSRA DEVELOPING OVER WRN NC MTNS AS OF 18Z. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE POOLING ALONG LEE SIDE TROF. ETA SHOWS AN AREA OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE AND CAPE ABOVE 1500 J/KG AT 00Z STRETCHING ACROSS THE PIEDMONT. LATEST THINKING IS THAT TSRA DEVELOPING OVER THE MOUNTAINS WILL FURTHER DEVELOP WHEN THEY ENCOUNTER THE GREATER INSTABILITY ALONG AND EAST OF THE LEE TROF LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. MICROBURST POTENTIAL STILL APPEARS TO BE THERE AS WELL. WILL TENTATIVELY PLAN ON INCLUDING A SCATTERED TSRA CHANCE OVER THE PIEDMONT ZONES FOR THIS EVENING. SURFACE FRONT SHOULD CROSS THE FORECAST AREA IN THE 00Z TO 03Z TIME FRAME ENDING THE THREAT. THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST LOOKS RELATIVELY BENIGN AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN SUNDAY AND MONDAY. WE MAY SEE A FEW CLOUDS IN THE MOUNTAINS ON SUNDAY...BUT MOST AREAS SHOULD BE CLEAR/SUNNY THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. SOME HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE IS PROGGED TO MOVE THRU MONDAY AFTERNOON BUT WE SHOULD STILL BE MOSTLY SUNNY. THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN GUIDANCE TEMPS IS ON SUNDAY. PREFER THE WARMER FWC NUMBERS WITH LOTS OF SUN AND SOME DOWNSLOPE. AS FOR THE EXTENDED...MRF DROPS A SURFACE BOUNDARY DOWN ACROSS THE REGION ON TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WITH A SWATH OF PRECIP...YET FMR PRECIP CHANCE REMAINS BELOW CLIMO. THINK I WILL IGNORE THE PRECIP FOR NOW AND LEAVE THE EXTENDED DRY. ...PRELIM NUMBERS... AVL 51/73/45/74 2000 CLT 60/81/51/80 3000 GSP 57/81/50/80 2000 .GSP...NONE. MOORE
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 13, 4:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
404 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
352 PM 8 S OLD FORT NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/13/00 MCDOWELL NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY SPOTTER.
RWHLocal storm report, May 13, 4:31 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
431 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
425 PM LAKE LURE NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/13/00 RUTHERFORD LAKE LURE PD REPORTED DIME
SIZE HAIL.
RWHLocal storm report, May 13, 5:01 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
501 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
445 PM LAKE LURE NC 1.50 INCH HAIL
05/13/00 RUTHERFORD HAIL REPORTED BY LAKE LURE
EMA.
RWHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell | 42 min |
| May 13, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 50 min |
| May 13, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson | 47 min |
| May 13, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell | 47 min |
| May 13, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 47 min |
| May 13, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 46 min |
| May 13, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 38 min |
| May 13, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk, Rutherford | 47 min |
| May 13, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 50 min |
| May 13, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 52 min |
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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.