Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2000, 5:43 PM EDT for Davie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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 28, 2000, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Davie County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 5:43 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Farmington, NC | |
| May 28, 5:55 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Advance, 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 28, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 60 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
- 165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
644 WUUS52 KGSP 282143 SVRGSP NCC059-282215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 543 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DAVIE COUNTY IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES NORTH OF MOCKSVILLE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF FARMINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FARMINGTON AT 545 PM EDT FORK CHURCH AT 600 PM EDT ADVANCE AT 605 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 28, 2:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:03 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 203 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2000 BREAKS IN CLOUDS NOW OCCURRING ACROSS WRN HALF OF CWA AND SHOWERS EXITING ERN HALF. WILL HAVE TO WATCH CLOSELY FOR CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT AS UPR TROUGH APPROACHES WITH HIGHER MID-LEVEL WINDS AND COOLER TEMPS /850-700 LAPSES AROUND -8.5 THIS EVENING/. WHATEVER DOES DEVELOP WILL MOVE EAST AND PROVIDE ERN ZONES WITH CHC POPS EARLY TONIGHT AS THOSE ZONES SHOULD DESTABILIZE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. MOIST LOW-LEVEL NORTHWEST/NORTHERLY FLOW OVERNIGHT WILL KEEP CHC SHOWERS IN NC MTNS. SFC LOW TO DEEPEN VICINITY OF NC COAST AS UPR LOW DIGS OFF THE COAST LATE TONIGHT. UPR COLD POOL MOVES OVERHEAD TONIGHT...BUT EAST OF US ON MONDAY. HIGH RH FIELD FROM SFC TO 700 MB REMAINS OVER THE AREA THROUGH MONDAY AND A SFC TROUGH LOOPS BACK UP THROUGH FOOTHILLS AND NRN MTNS. SFC NORTHEASTERLY FLOW INCREASES IN THE AFTN...SO SFC CONVERGENCE IN VICINTY OF TROUGH MAY ALLOW SOME SHOWERS TO DEVELOP. HOWEVER...LAPSE RATES NOT STEEP ENOUGH FOR THUNDER. WILL INCLUDE CHC POPS FOR ALL BUT EXTREME WRN ZONES. LOW LIFTS OUT TUESDAY AS SUBTROPICAL RIDGE BUILDS EAST FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. LOW-LEVEL THICKNESSES LOWEST ON TUESDAY...BUT WITH MORE SUNSHINE I DONT ANTICIPATE TEMPS TO BE MUCH DIFFERENT THAN MONDAY. FOR THE EXTENDED...DRY AND WARM WITH UPR ANTI-CYLCONE OVERHEAD. AVL 54/75/53/78/56 3200 CLT 62/78/54/79/58 3300 GSP 61/80/56/80/60 2200 .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 28, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 34 min |
| May 28, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 30 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.