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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 16, 2000Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 8:46 PM EDT for Rabun County, Georgia. 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 16, 2000, 8:46 PM EDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2000, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Rabun County, GA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 16, 8:55 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EClayton, GA

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 321 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1238 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2000-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1238 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

287 
WUUS52 KGSP 170045
SVRGSP
GAC241-170130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
846 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 845 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  CLARKESVILLE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOCCASIN CREEK STATE
  PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLAYTON AT 855 PM EDT
  MOUNTAIN CITY AT 900 PM EDT
  DILLARD AT 905 PM EDT
  SKY VALLEY AT 910 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.

$$
RB/WAJ

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 16, 7:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 7:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
702 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

TSTMS DVLPNG ACROSS CENTRAL CWA MOVG NE. LARGER TSTMS OVR CNTRL GA
HEADED NE TOWARD CWA AS WELL. WILL UPDATE ZONES TO CATEGORICAL RAIN
THIS EVE.

.GSP...NONE.

RB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 16, 8:35 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
835 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

823 PM     WALHALLA                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/16/00   OCONEE                         SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL
                                          CLOUDS. ROOF DAMAGED ON
                                          AUTO PARTS STORE. REPORTED
                                          BY EOC.

RB
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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.