Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 2:10 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports 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 25, 2000, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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 25, 2:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Mountain Rest, SC | |
| Jun 25, 2:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Walhalla, 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 251809 SVRGSP SCC073-251900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 210 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 207 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOCCOA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF WESTMINSTER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WESTMINSTER AT 215 PM EDT OAKWAY AT 225 PM EDT WALHALLA AT 230 PM EDT SENECA AT 240 PM EDT SALEM AT 245 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. $$ SAB
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 25, 9:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 9:58 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 958 AM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 CLOUDINESS & A FEW SHOWERS INDICATED ON VISIBLE SAT LOOPS & REGIONAL 88D MOSAIC...MOVING INTO NC MTNS. THIS IS IN ASSOCIATION WITH WEAK S/WV IN WHICH 06Z MESOETA MOVES INTO MTNS THIS AFTERNOON. AVAILABLE RH MORE PREVALENT THAN YSDRY...SO SFC DWPTS PROGGED TO MIX OUT INTO LWR 60S WEST TO MID 60S EAST...RATHER THAN UPR 50S-LWR 60S IN WHICH WE SAW YSTDY. MODIFIED 12Z SNDGS YEILDED SBCAPES ABT 2500 J/KG WITH LESS OF A CAP THAN YSTDY. GIVEN A LITTLE LARGE SCALE ASCENT WITH AFOREMENTIONED S/WV & DEVELOPING LEE SIDE TROUGH...FEEL GOING 30-40 POP GOOD. .GSP...NONE. CSH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 25, 2:07 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
207 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
150 PM WEAVERVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUMCOMBE TREES/POWER LINES DOWN. 1
HOME DAMAGED.
150 PM SKYLAND NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUNCOMBE TREES DOWN...1 ON A HOUSE.
150 PM BILTMORE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUMCOMBE POWER LINES DOWN.
150 PM BARNARDSVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUNCOMBE POWER LINES AND TREES
DOWN. 1 TREE ON A HOUSE.
150 PM ASHEVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
06/25/00 BUNCOMBE POWER LINES AND TREES
DOWN.
ALL REPORTS FROM BUNCOMBE COUNTY COMMS
RWH
NNNNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 7:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 47 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.