Alert archive / North Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 5:33 PM EDT for McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 min. 3 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
- May 24, 2000, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDowell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:41 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Marion, NC | |
| May 24, 5:50 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Marion, NC | |
| May 24, 5:50 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Marion, NC |
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 284 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
562 WFUS52 KGSP 242134 TORGSP NCC111-242200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 533 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT. * AT 533 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARION...OR ABOUT OVER NEBO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DYSARTSVILLE AT 550 PM EDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MCDOWELL COUNTY. 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. $$ BPM/BWM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell | 35 min |
| May 24, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Burke | 30 min |
| May 24, 5:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Rutherford | 37 min |
| May 24, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 24, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland, Gaston | 47 min |
| May 24, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 46 min |
| May 24, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus, Mecklenburg | 43 min |
| May 24, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 49 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.