Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 4:12 PM EDT for McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 3, 2000, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDowell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:25 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -163 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
768 WUUS52 KGSP 032012 SVRGSP NCC111-032100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 412 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES WEST OF MARION...OR ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF OLD FORT. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MARION AT 500 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. $$
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 Jun 3, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 234 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000 WILL PLAN ON ZFP ISSUANCE RIGHT AROUND 3 PM TO CATCH SVR WATCH & REGULAR AFTERNOON PACKAGE. FORCING ALONG SOUTHWARD SINKING SURFACE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO INITIATE TSTMS ACROSS THE CWFA INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WEAKLY SHEARED ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT MAINLY PULSE SVR THREAT. DIFFICULT TO ASSES HOW MUCH ACTIVITY WILL BE LINGERING AFTER SUNSET GIVEN RATHER WEAK LARGE SCALE FORCING...BUT WITH FRONTAL ZONE REMAINING IN VICINITY...PLUS SMALLER SCALE BNDRYS LIKELY LEFTOVER FROM CURRENT CONVECTION...WILL CARRY CHC POPS INTO OVERNIGHT. WILL HAVE EVENING AND/OR REST OF AFTERNOON PERIOD TO ADDRESSING ONGOING CONVECTION & SVR THREAT. DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE HOW FAR SOUTH BNDRY WILL MOVE THRU THE DAY ON SUNDAY ESPECIALLY WITH IT BECOMING INCREASINGLY NEBULOUS. AT ANY RATE...DWPTS DONT FALL VERY MUCH TO THE NORTH OF THIS ZONE ACRS MY CWFA. MDLS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP INVERTED TROUGH ACRS MTNS ALONG WITH GOOD LLVL CONVERGENCE & MODERATE INSTABILTY...SO WOULD EXPECT DECENT TSTM CHANCE AGAIN ON SUNDAY. VERY SIMILAR AIRMASS CONTINUES OVER THE REGION ON MONDAY OUT AHEAD OF APPROACHING...WELL-DEFINED COLD FRONT. ETA FCSTS MODERATE INSTABILITY & EXPECT TO CONTINUE WILL CHC POPS THEN AS WELL. IN THE EXTENDED...NEW AVN QUICKER THAN 00Z MRF IN THE EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF COLD FRONT...NEARING THE COAST BY 12Z TUESDAY. MAY BE ABLE TO REMOVE POPS FROM TUESDAY BASED ON THIS & IF IN AGREEMENT WITH SURROUNDING ZFPS. AVL 61/81/60/80 4343 CLT 67/85/65/84 4343 GSP 68/87/66/85 4343 .GSP...NONE. CSH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 10:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-040240- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1040 AM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A COLD FRONT DROPPING SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ACROSS FOOTHILL AND PIEDMONT LOCATIONS...BUT ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS IN THE MOUNTAINS ARE NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Lincoln | 47 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.