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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 16, 2000Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2000, 9:16 PM EDT for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 16, 2000, 9:16 PM EDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Pickens County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 288 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 367 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2000-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 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.

144 
WUUS52 KGSP 170116
SVRGSP
SCC077-170200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PICKENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 916 PM EDT...SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS FROM 19 MILES NORTH OF WALHALLA TO 7 MILES EAST OF
  CLEMSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LIBERTY AT 925 PM EDT
  PICKENS AT 930 PM EDT
  ROCKY BOTTOM AT 935 PM EDT
  EASLEY AT 940 PM EDT

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE
ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

$$

WAJ/RB

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, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 7:02 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 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, 41 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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 8:28 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPOconee32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.