Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2001, 6:19 PM EDT for Henderson County, Polk County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min. 5 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
- Jul 8, 2001, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henderson County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lake Lure, NC | Trees blown down. |
| Jul 8, 6:36 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 58 M | Hendersonville, NC | Trained spotter measured a wind gust at Hoopers Creek. |
| Jul 8, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Hendersonville, NC | Numerous trees and power lines down. Some trees fell on houses. Over 7000 homes lost power during the storm and remained without power for much of the night. |
| Jul 8, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Rutherfordton, NC | Numerous trees blown down onto roads and streets. Power lines down countywide. |
| Jul 8, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Beulah, NC | Trees down along N.C. 9 near Mill Spring. Stop signs were blown down near Beulah. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 8, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 300 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001 PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN THIS PACKAGE IS WHAT TO DO WITH DEVELOPING UPSTREAM MCS. CURRENTLY INTENSE CONVECTION IS FIRING ALONG H8 AREA OF CONVERGENCE...OVER SE OH/NRN KY. MODELS ARE NOT HANDLING THIS SYSTEM WELL AS THEY DON/T DEVELOP ANY ORGANIZED CONVECTION UNTIL AROUND 06Z (INTERESTINGLY ENUF...ABOUT WHERE CONVECTION IS NOW). I SUPPOSE THIS BATCH COULD DIE OUT...BUT WITH 30 KTS OF SHEAR AND GOES SOUNDER LIS OF -10 FEEDING IT...I HAVE MY DOUBTS. SO THE QUESTION IS...WHERE WL IT GO? LAST NGHTS MCS TRACKED JUST ABOUT ALONG THE -10 DEG C LINE AT H7. TNGT...THE -10 DEG TEMPS HAVE ALL BUT VANISHED AS THE WORKED OVER AIRMASS HAS LOST A LOT OF THE ELEVATED MIXED LAYER CHARACTERISTICS OF DAYS PAST. STILL...-8 DEG TEMP LINE LOOK GOOD TNGT...WHICH PRETTY MUCH TAKES IT RIGHT ACROSS THE CWA. BY LATE TNGT THE FLOW TURNS ALMOST DUE N...AND WEAKENS SOME...SO THE SYSTEM PROBABLY WILL NOT BE AS STRONG AS THE ONE LAST NGHT...BUT CERTAINLY CAN/T RULE OUT SOME STRONG WINDS AS THE MCS FIRST GETS HERE. THUS...PLAN TO MENTION SOME POSSIBLY SEVERE IN THE MTN ZONES. W/DIFFULENT THICKNESS PATTERN ALOFT...SOME TRAINING HEAVY RAIN ALSO POSSIBLE. WON/T ISSUE A FFA DUE TO SOME UNCERTAINTY ON TRACK OF MCS WL LOWER TEMPS ABOUT 5 TO 7 DEG TMRW TO ACCOUNT FOR DEBRIS LEFT OVER FROM MCS. IF ETA IS RIGHT...MORE CONVECTION MAY FIRE ABOUT DAWN OVER THE AREA. HOWEVER...SHEAR BECOMES MUCH WEAKER TMRW. AND WHAT SHEAR THERE IS...AN AXIS OF H7 25KT WNDS...RETROGRADE INTO CENTRAL TN AND NRN AL/GA IN RESPONSE TO HGHT FALLS OVER THE E. LOW CHANCE POPS MON NGHT AND TUE. W/ONLY WEAK NW FLOW...THESE WL LIKELY BE MORE OF THE TYPICAL SUMMERTIME DIURNALLY DRIVEN STUFF. NCEP CONTINUES TO ADVERTISE A RATHER SUBSTANTIAL FROPA EARLY WED. LATEST AVN LOOKS AWFULLY WEAK WITH THE FRONT...TO THE POINT THAT NW FLOW CONVECTION CONTINUES WED AND THU. HOWEVER...WL GO WITH NCEP IDEA AND IGNORE THE OUTLIER AVN. THUS...DRY WED-FRI...WITH CHANCE TSRA FRI NGHT-SUN AS SFC BNDRY LIFTS BACK INTO THE REGION. FCSTID = 14 GSP 71 87 72 92 /k 70 40 30 30 AND 71 87 72 92 / 70 40 30 30 CLT 71 87 72 92 / 60 40 30 30 HKY 70 87 71 90 / 70 40 30 30 AVL 65 82 65 87 / 80 40 30 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-090000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 215 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA... A WARM AND HUMID AIR MASS IN PLACE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THIS AFTERNOON HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE IN SOME LOCATIONS LATER TODAY. HOWEVER...IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IF THIS POTENTIAL INSTABILITY WILL MATERIALIZE. A THICK CLOUD DECK WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF SUN...AND INSTABILITY... ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT...AND MUCH OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. UNLESS THE CLOUDS THIN DRAMATICALLY...THE AREA TO THE EAST OF MARION...RUTHERFORDTON...GAFFNEY...AND CHESTER HAS A LOW CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...PERSISTENT BANDS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT COUNTIES. LOCATIONS TO THE EAST OF TAYLORSVILLE...MOORESVILLE...METRO CHARLOTTE...AND MONROE COULD RECEIVE ENOUGH RAIN TO CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EARLY EVENING WILL BE THE AREA ROUGHLY TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM BRYSON CITY AND FRANKLIN TO SENECA...ANDERSON...AND GREENWOOD... WHERE THE THINNER CLOUD COVER WILL ALLOW MORE HEATING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH. DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS WILL APPROACH THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS FROM EASTERN KENTUCKY...SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA...AND NORTHEAST TENNESSEE. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER... THEY COULD MOVE INTO THE MOUNTAINS AFTER 7 PM OR SO...WITH THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND HEAVY RAIN. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. MOORE
Local storm report, Jul 8, 6:15 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
615 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
603 PM 4 E MARSHALL NC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 MADISON SPOTTER REPORTS TREES
DOWN. ONE BADLY DAMAGED A
ROOF.
RWHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Greenville, Spartanburg | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Avery | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mitchell, Yancey | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Madison | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, McDowell | 36 min |
| Jul 8, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe | 29 min |
| Jul 8, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 64 min |
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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.