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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 24, 2000Burke County, McDowell County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 5:10 PM EDT for Burke County, McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min. 6 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 24, 2000, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Burke County, NC, McDowell County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 98 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
May 24, 5:40 PM EDT	Hail 2.75	Morganton, NC
May 24, 5:41 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Marion, NC
May 24, 5:45 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Glen Alpine, NC
May 24, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Bridgewater, NC
May 24, 5:50 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Marion, NC
May 24, 5:50 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Marion, 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 269 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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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.

477 
WUUS52 KGSP 242111
SVRGSP
NCC023-111-242145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
510 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
  WESTERN BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES SOUTH OF
  SPRUCE PINE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF WOODLAWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEBO AT 520 PM EDT
  MARION AT 520 PM EDT
  GLEN ALPINE AT 530 PM EDT
  DYSARTSVILLE 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.

$$

BPM/BWM

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 24, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
204 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

SHORT TERM CONCERN IS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CONVECTION IN RESPONSE TO
SMALL SHORTWAVE ENTERING CWA ATTM AND ITS INTERACTION WITH HIGH SFC
DWPTS AND DIFFERENTIAL HEATING BOUNDARIES. S/W ALSO TRACKING ESE IN
MAX THETA-E RIDGE AND SFC LIS ARE -5 TO -6 ACCORDING TO MSAS. WILL
WAIT TO LAST POSSIBLE MINUTE TO DETERMINE POPS FOR THIS
EVENING/TONIGHT BASED ON UPSTREAM DEVELOPMENTS.

LATEST ETA RUN NOT AS UNSTABLE/MOIST AS PREVIOUS. SFC COLD FRONT TO
SLIDE SOUTH THROUGH THE CWA EARLY THURSDAY. AS UPR FLOW BECOMES MORE
UNIDIRECTIONAL OUT OF THE WEST...BOUNDARY STALLS IN OR JUST TO THE
SOUTH OF CWA. THEN UPR RIDGE STARTS TO AMPLIFY AGAIN FRIDAY AHEAD OF
SYSTEM COMING THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS...AND BOUNDARY LIFTS NORTH
AS A WARM FRONT FRIDAY. NO REAL MID-LEVEL FORCING AGAIN UNTIL LATER
THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY...AND EVEN THAT IS WEAK AND SHEARED. WE WILL
HAVE BOUNDARY/THETA-E RIDGE/THICKNESS DIFFLUENCE AND MOIST AIR MASS
OVER US FOR MUCH OF THE NEXT 48 HOURS. SO THE INGREDIENTS ARE THERE
FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. SEEMS REASONABLE THAT MCS AFTER MCS
OR THE REMAINS OF SUCH WILL CONTINUE TO TAKE AIM AT OUR CWA...BUT
WITHOUT ANY ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE HELPING TO RESOLVE THE TEMPORAL AND
SPATIAL RESULTS OF THE MCSS...WILL BE HARD AT THIS POINT TO GO
HIGHER THAN CHC POPS THROUGH THE PERIOD. MAY EVEN LEAVE THUNDER OUT
OF NORTHERN ZONES ON THURSDAY...SINCE THAT AREA TO BE MOST STABLE.

WITH EXPECTED CLOUD COVER IN VICINITY OF BOUNDARY...WILL GO SLIGTHLY
LOWER THAN GUIDANCE FOR HIGH TEMPS THURSDAY. IN THE EXTENDED...LOOKS
LIKE WILL NEED TO KEEP CHC SHRA/TSRA FRIDAY NIGHT...THEN AGAIN
SUNDAY WITH PASSAGE OF FRONT. MONDAY SHOULD BE DRIER AND COOLER.

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
AVL 62/77/58/80/60 4444
CLT 65/82/61/84/64 3434
GSP 66/83/63/85/65 4444

.GSP...NONE.

MOYER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 5:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	McDowell	27 min
May 24, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Burke	30 min
May 24, 5:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Rutherford	37 min
May 24, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	43 min
May 24, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	47 min
May 24, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	46 min
May 24, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	43 min
May 24, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.