Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Clayton, 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.
- 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
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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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.