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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 13, 2000Catawba County, Lincoln County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 5:29 PM EDT for Catawba County, Lincoln County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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, 5:29 PM EDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Catawba County, NC, Lincoln County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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, 5:55 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Lincolnton, NC
May 13, 5:55 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Lincolnton, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 13, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 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

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The text

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

935 
WUUS52 KGSP 132130
SVRGSP
NCC035-109-132215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
529 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CATAWBA COUNTY IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 529 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 15 MILES WEST OF
  LINCOLNTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF COOKSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  VALE AT 535 PM EDT
  LINCOLNTON AT 550 PM EDT
  BOGER CITY AT 555 PM EDT
  MAIDEN AT 600 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

The 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, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	47 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.