Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2001, 1:20 AM EDT for Haywood County, Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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
- Jul 9, 2001, 1:20 AM EDT (05:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2001, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 1:40 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Spring Creek, NC | Gas station personnel reported numerous trees and power lines down across roads overnight. |
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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 632 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 090523 SVRGSP NCC087-115-090600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 120 AM EDT MON JUL 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 200 AM EDT * AT 120 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREENEVILLE TENNESSEE TO 14 MILES SOUTH OF NEWPORT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... WATERVILLE AT 130 AM EDT HOT SPRINGS AT 130 AM EDT SPRING CREEK AT 135 AM EDT LUCK AT 140 AM EDT COVE CREEK AT 145 AM EDT FAUST AT 150 AM EDT LAKE JUNALUSKA AT 150 AM EDT PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. $$ HG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 1:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.