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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 24, 2000Burke County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT for Burke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min. 6 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, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Burke County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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
May 24, 5:45 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Glen Alpine, NC
May 24, 5:46 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Bridgewater, NC
May 24, 5:57 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Morganton, NC
May 24, 5:57 PM EDT	Hail 4.5	Morganton, NC
May 24, 6:14 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Morganton, NC
May 24, 6:14 PM EDT	Hail 4.5	Morganton, 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 255 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

177 
WFUS52 KGSP 242146
TORGSP
NCC023-242215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
545 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BURKE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 545 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  MORGANTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF GLEN ALPINE...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHERN BURKE COUNTY AT 600 PM EDT

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, 5:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	McDowell	27 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.