Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2000, 3:49 PM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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
- May 27, 2000, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iredell County, NC
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 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
458 WUUS52 KGSP 271952 SVRGSP NCC097-272015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 349 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN IREDELL COUNTY IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 349 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTH OF STATESVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER TURNERSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. *THIS STORM WILL AFFECT AREAS NORTH OF I-40 ALONG THE SOUTH FORK YADKIN RIVER THROUGH 415 PM EDT. ALTHOUGH TORNADOES HAVE NOT BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT WARNING FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. $$ WAJ/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 27, 1:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 1:47 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 147 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 CONVECTION STARTING NOW IN THE NRN MTNS/FOOTHILLS OF NC IN VERY JUICY AIRMASS WITH LOW 70 DWPTS. ETA SHOWS LOW CENTER DEVELOPING ON LEE TROUGH AROUND CLT BY THIS EVENING. THIS COULD BE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO RESULT IN WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS WRN/CENT NC WHEN CONSIDERING THE LARGE CAPES AND WIND SHEAR IN PLACE. EXPECT STORMS MORE ON A SCATTERED BASIS ACROSS NE GA/UPSTATE THIS EVENING. MCS DEVELOPING IN WRN TN LIKELY TO AFFECT THE MTNS SOMETIME THIS EVENING AS WELL. WILL BE A BREAK IN PRECIP OVERNIGHT BEFORE NEXT AND RATHER LARGE MCS AHEAD OF COLD FRONT ENTERS THE WRN TIER AROUND SUNRISE. COLD FRONT TO PROGRESS ACROSS CWA SUNDAY MORNING ATTENDED BY DYING SQUALL LINE. THINGS COULD GET INTERESTING AGAIN SUNDAY AFTERNOON THOUGH. IN THE ERN ZONES...IF FRONT HAS NOT PASSED THROUGH...AIRMASS WILL BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE AND SQUALL LINE COULD REFORM AS FAR WEST AS THE CLT AREA. IN THE WEST...HIGH AMOUNTS OF LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE HANG AROUND AND COUPLED WITH A DIGGING SHORTWAVE/STRONG MID-UPR LEVEL JET AND DRIER AND COOLING MID-LEVELS...CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO GENERATE MORE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HAIL. AGAIN..THE GREATEST CHC OF THIS OCCURRING WILL BE IN NC. WRAP AROUND MOISTURE UNDER CLOSED LOW WILL BE UPSLOPED INTO NC MTNS SUNDAY NIGHT...WILL CONTINUE CHC POP THERE. COULD BE A FEW SHOWERS AROUND IN CENT NC...BUT NOT A HIGH ENOUGHT CHC TO MENTION ATTM. COLD POOL ON MONDAY CENTERED TO THE EAST OF CWA...BUT COULD STILL HAVE SOME INSTABILITY DRIVEN SHRA/TSRA IN MY ERN ZONES. OTHERWISE...THIS ONE COOL DAY WILL BE NICE TO HAVE BEFORE THINGS HEAT UP TOWARD THE LATTER PART OF NEXT WEEK. EXTENDED PROGS SHOW STRONG 5H RIDGE BUILDING ACROSS SOUTHERN STATES WED/THURS. ALTHOUGH PATTERN SUGGESTS WE COULD BE DEALING WITH MORE MCS REMNANTS FROM TIME TO TIME IN THE EXTENDED...WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY WITH A WARMING TREND. PRELIMINARY NUMBERS... AVL 65/79/55/78/52 5722 CLT 70/85/58/79/54 4623 GSP 72/85/60/81/56 3610 .GSP...NONE. MOYER
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 27, 11:20 AM EDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-272000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1120 AM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... A HOT...MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL COMBINE WITH APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL FEATURES TO CAUSE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL EXTEND AT LEAST INTO THE EARLY PART OF TONIGHT FOR SOME SECTIONS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE THOSE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH CAUSE DAMAGING WIND STORMS...LARGE HAIL...AND TORNADOES. THE FORMS OF SEVERE WEATHER WHICH ARE MOST LIKELY TODAY ARE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL FIRST BE IN THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON...AS SOME THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP...AND OTHERS MOVE IN FROM TENNESSEE. IT IS THEN POSSIBLE THAT A SQUALL LINE COULD FORM FROM THESE MOUNTAIN STORMS...AND MOVE OUT INTO THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT. LESS COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED IN THE GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA PARTS OF THE SERVICE AREA OF THE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE. EVEN THERE...HOWEVER...THE SCATTERED STORMS COULD BE STRONG...WITH A FEW SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. COMMUNICATION CENTER DISPATCHERS SHOULD BRIEF LOCAL OFFICIALS ON THIS OUTLOOK STATEMENT...AND SKYWARN SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER TODAY. SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES HAD NOT BEEN ISSUED FOR THE AREA AS OF LATE MORNING. LISTEN FOR LATER INFORMATION REGARDING THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...ON THIS FIRST DAY OF THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. JONES
Local storm report, May 27, 3:00 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
300 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
303 PM UNION GROVE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/27/00 IREDELL COUNTY COMMS
305 PM 5 N MOCKSVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00 DAVIE PUBLIC REPORTED LITTLE
OVER DIME SIZE HAIL
PT
NNNNLocal storm report, May 27, 3:16 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
316 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
306 PM 3 NW HARMONY NC .88 INCH HAIL
05/27/00 IREDELL REPORT THROUGH COUNTY
COMMS OF DIME TO NICKEL
SIZED HAIL IN NORTHERN
PART OF COUNTY.
DEO
NNNNLocal storm report, May 27, 3:39 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
339 PM EDT SAT MAY 27 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
330 PM MOCKSVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
05/27/00 DAVIE SPOTTER REPORTED DIME SIZE
HAIL
PT
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell | 42 min |
| May 27, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Davie | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.