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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 16, 2000Oconee County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2000, 8:28 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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 16, 2000, 8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Oconee County, SC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 16, 8:44 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Tamassee, 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 323 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: 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

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The text

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

103 
WFUS52 KGSP 170029
TORGSP
SCC073-170100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
828 PM EDT FRI JUN 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT.

* AT 828 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS TRACKING A   
POSSIBLE TORNADO SOUTHWEST OF WALHALLA...OR ABOUT 3 MILES   
SOUTHWEST OF WESTMINSTER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WALHALLA AT 835 PM EDT
  SALEM AT 855 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.

$$

RB/WAJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	44 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.