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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

March 11, 2000Cherokee County, South Carolina; Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Mar 11, 2000, 3:16 PM EST for Cherokee County, South Carolina; Cleveland County, North 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
Mar 11, 2000, 3:16 PM EST (20:16 UTC)
Expired
Mar 11, 2000, 4:00 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cleveland County, NC, Cherokee County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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 12:00Z on 2000-03-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 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 12:00Z on 2000-03-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 183 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1018 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
158 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.

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 112017
TORGSP
NCC045-SCC021-112100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
316 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CLEVELAND COUNTY IN PIEDMONT NORTH CAROLINA
  NORTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EST.

* AT 316 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF CHESNEE...OR
  ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF GAFFNEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BOILING SPRINGS NC AT 325 PM EST
  EARL AT 330 PM EST
  KINGSTOWN AT 335 PM EST
  SHELBY AT 340 PM EST
  LAWNDALE AT 345 PM EST

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY
FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS.

$$

ROBBINS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 11, 4:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPDavie, Iredell, Rowan49 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2000Tornado Warnings in North Carolina, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.