Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2000, 4:46 PM EDT for Chester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 15, 2000, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chester County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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 15, 4:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Leeds, SC |
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 230 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
355 WUUS52 KGSP 152046 SVRGSP SCC023-152130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 446 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHESTER COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 446 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHESTER...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF LEEDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LEEDS AT 450 PM EDT CORNWELL AT 505 PM EDT CHESTER AT 515 PM EDT LOWRYS AT 525 PM EDT RICHBURG AT 530 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. $$ MCAVOY/MOORE
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 15, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 230 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000 RADAR SHOWS CELLS BLOSSOMING OVER UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER AREA WHERE LAPS CAPES ARE RUNNING 3000 J/KG WITH CONVERGENCE NEAR A SFC TROUGH. THE LATEST MESO ETA RUN BACKS OFF CONSIDERABLY ON MESO LOW DEVELOPMENT NEAR THE UPSTATE THIS EVENING...BUT DOES MAINTAIN A SIGNIFICANT SFC TROF ALONG WITH DEEPENING MOISTURE. THE ETA AND AVN ALSO KEEP FORCING OVER THE AREA ASSOC WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE AND WEAK VORT SKIRTING NORTHWARD AROUND THE HIGH FROM THE GULF. ETA HIGH QPF VALUES AND HIGH LOCAL SCHEME POPS SEEM UNREASONABLE GIVEN VAGUE FEATURES. WILL COMPROMISE BETWEEN MOIST FAN AND DRIER FWC NUMBERS. VERY LITTLE AIRMASS CHANGE IS EXPECTED THROUGH THE SHORT RANGE WITH PERSISTENCE EXPECTED ON TEMPERATURES. IN FACT...PERSISTENCE WILL BE THE APPROACH THROUGH THE EXTENDED AS FRONT TO NORTH WILL MAKE LITTLE PROGRESS SOUTHWARD INTO HIGH PRES RIDGE WITH A STRANGLEHOLD ON THE SOUTHEAST. WILL MENTION SCATTERED AFTN AND EVE TSTMS EACH DAY. AVL 65/84/65/84 5434 CLT 71/90/71/90 4434 GSP 71/90/70/90 5434 .GSP...NONE. HG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-160300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 345 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TONIGHT... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING INTO THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS EVENING WILL INTERACT WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS OVER THE AREA TO WILL GIVE RISE TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THE FOCUS OF THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. HOWEVER...THE ENTIRE AREA COULD SEE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD AS WELL. ANY OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HAIL OF 3/4 TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND GUSTY WINDS OF 50 TO 60 MPH. TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS WELL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND STATEMENTS. HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 32 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.