Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 3, 2000, 6:45 PM EDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.
914 WUUS52 KGSP 032246 SVRGSP SCC083-032330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 645 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 645 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPARTANBURG...OR ABOUT OVER INMAN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FINGERVILLE AT 650 PM EDT BOILING SPRINGS SC AT 655 PM EDT SPARTANBURG AT 710 PM EDT CHESNEE AT 715 PM EDT COWPENS AT 725 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. $$ SAB/CSH
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, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:34 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 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
Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
443 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
424 PM 3 W ASHEVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE.
06/03/00 BUNCOMBE ONE TREE DOWN AND SOME
POWER LINES DOWNED ON
SANDHILL ROAD IN CANDLER.
REPORT FROM BUNCOMBE EOC.
SAB
NNNNLocal storm report, Jun 3, 4:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
459 PM EDT SAT JUN 03 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
425 PM 5 WSW MARION NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/03/00 MCDOWELL CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF
HAIL AT GREENLEE
COMMUNITY. REPORTED BY EMS
THROUGH COUNTY 911.
CSH
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.