Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
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.
- 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
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
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Oconee | 32 min |
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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.