Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2001, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurens County, SC
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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 1464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
632 WUUS52 KGSP 082345 SVRGSP SCC059-090030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 745 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAURENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 7 MILES NORTH OF LAURENS...MOVING SOUTH AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LAURENS AT 755 PM EDT JOANNA AT 800 PM EDT WATERLOO AT 805 PM EDT CROSS HILL AT 810 PM EDT PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. $$
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, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:00 PM EDT, 4 hours 45 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
Local storm report, Jul 8, 7:31 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
731 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
705 PM TRAVELERS REST SC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 GREENVILLE TREE DOWN ACROSS HIGHWAY
25. REPORTED BY TRAVELERS
REST PD.
CSHLocal storm report, Jul 8, 7:37 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
737 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
725 PM NORTHWESTERN COUNTY SC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 SPARTANBURG 30 REPORTS OF TREES AND
LINES DOWN IN NORTH AND
NORTHWEST PART OF COUNTY.
AFFECTED CITIES INCLUDE:
COWPENS, BOILING SPRINGS,
HOLLY SPRINGS,
SPARTANBURG. REPORTED BY
SPARTANBURG CO EOC.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jul 8, 7:37 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
737 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
725 PM SPARTANBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 SPARTANBURG 30 REPORTS OF TREES AND
LINES DOWN IN NORTH AND
NORTHWEST PART OF COUNTY.
AFFECTED CITIES INCLUDE:
COWPENS, BOILING SPRINGS,
HOLLY SPRINGS,
SPARTANBURG. REPORTED BY
SPARTANBURG CO EOC.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jul 8, 7:40 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
740 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
645 PM CASAR NC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 CLEVELAND TREES DOWN NEAR HIGHWAY
10 AND OLIVE GROVE ROAD.
HAM RADIO REPORT.
CSHLocal storm report, Jul 8, 7:41 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
741 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
630 PM LEICESTER NC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 BUNCOMBE PUBLIC REPORTED MEDIUM TO
LARGE TREE DOWN ON HOUSE.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jul 8, 7:43 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
743 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
720 PM GREENVILLE SC WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01 GREENVILLE PINE TREE DOWN ON I-385
NEAR STONE AVE. REPORT
RELAYED THROUGH HAM
RADIO.
CSHThe 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 |
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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.