Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 675
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 10, 2000, 2:00 AM EDT for 30 counties in North Carolina; 12 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2000, 2:00 AM EDT (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 counties
Anson County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Wake County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 2:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 56 min |
| Aug 10, 2:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Haywood, Madison | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 2:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 41 min |
| Aug 10, 2:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 3:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston, Lincoln, Mecklenburg | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 3:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell, Rutherford | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 3:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 58 min |
| Aug 10, 3:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Polk, Transylvania | 61 min |
| Aug 10, 3:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Lancaster | 67 min |
| Aug 10, 3:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Pickens | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 3:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Spartanburg | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 64 min |
| Aug 10, 3:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 4:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield, Lancaster | 56 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 2371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun and 20 more | 3 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.