Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 173

April 17, 200049 counties in North Carolina; Cherokee County, Spartanburg County, York County, South Carolina; 35 counties in Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 17, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT for 49 counties in North Carolina; Cherokee County, Spartanburg County, York County, South Carolina; 35 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 17, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 87 counties

Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Anson County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, York County, SC, Bedford County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA

Warnings issued inside it

43 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 1:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Patrick	6 hr
Apr 17, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Patrick	40 min
Apr 17, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie, City of Petersburg	26 min
Apr 17, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	City of Colonial Heights	26 min
Apr 17, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Montgomery	30 min
Apr 17, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte	40 min
Apr 17, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin	46 min
Apr 17, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	38 min
Apr 17, 2:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Franklin	6 hr
Apr 17, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Charlotte	48 min
Apr 17, 2:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Montgomery	6 hr
Apr 17, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford, Campbell	43 min
Apr 17, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Pittsylvania	47 min
Apr 17, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Prince Edward	25 min
Apr 17, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	38 min
Apr 17, 3:23 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Campbell	37 min
Apr 17, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick, Lunenburg, Nottoway	27 min
Apr 17, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Campbell, Pittsylvania	45 min
Apr 17, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	James City, New Kent	32 min
Apr 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie	30 min
Apr 17, 4:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie	30 min
Apr 17, 4:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RNK	Charlotte	35 min
Apr 17, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Brunswick	33 min
Apr 17, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Bedford	39 min
Apr 17, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dinwiddie	30 min
Apr 17, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Sussex	30 min
Apr 17, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Mecklenburg	23 min
Apr 17, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	48 min
Apr 17, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Surry	42 min
Apr 17, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Sussex	30 min
Apr 17, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Southampton	31 min
Apr 17, 5:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RNK	Roanoke, City of Roanoke, City of Salem	92 min
Apr 17, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	29 min
Apr 17, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Carroll, Floyd	24 min
Apr 17, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin, Patrick	46 min
Apr 17, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	28 min
Apr 17, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Northampton	32 min
Apr 17, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Stokes	36 min
Apr 17, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	34 min
Apr 17, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Union	52 min
Apr 17, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Southampton, City of Franklin	30 min
Apr 17, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RNK	Franklin	23 min
Apr 17, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Isle of Wight, City of Franklin	31 min

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anson, Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke and 11 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.