Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 4:05 PM EST for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 4:05 PM EST (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cabarrus County, NC
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 489 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
030 WUUS52 KGSP 192105 SVRGSP NCC025-192130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 405 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CABARRUS COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 430 PM EST * AT 405 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONCORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CONCORD AT 415 PM EST 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. $$ LGL
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 Jan 19, 10:42 AM EST, 5 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 10:42 AM EST, 5 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1042 AM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 ZONES MAY BE A LITTLE LATE. HAD TO DO A MAJOR REWRITE TO THE FCST MATRIX. ONLY ONE LOCATION...CLT...REPORTING DENSE FOG ATTM. WILL ALLOW DFA TO EXPIRE. WARM SECTOR HAS MOVED NWD INTO THE CWFA...GRD/EQY SOUTH WINDS AND RAPIDLY RISING TEMPS/DEW POINTS. COLD POOL REMAINS OVER REST OF CWFA. SFC LOW MOVING NWD TO OUR WEST...SO EROSION OF COLD POOL LIKELY TO CONTINUE...BUT SLOWLY. THIS INCREASES CHC OF SVR WX ALONG OUR SRN TIER COUNTIES...BUT WILL LEAVE OUT OF FCST ATTM. ISENTROPIC LIFT/WWA TO CONTINUE AHEAD OF FNT THIS AFTERNOON. TSRA BUILDING TO OUR WEST AND WILL SLIDE EAST INTO OUR AREA LATER. ALL THIS AGREES WITH CURRENT FCST. TEMPS/WINDS ARE ANOTHER STORY. HAVE SPLIT OFF SRN TIER WITH WARMER TEMPS AND HIER WINDS. HAVE LEFT OUT LWA ATTM GIVEN POOR CONDITIONS PER LOCAL POLICY. MADE SOME CHANGES TO WINDS/TEMPS ELSEWHERE INDICATING SLOWER EROSION OF COLD POOL. NO CHANGES TO LATER PERIODS. GSP 58 46 49 29 / 100 90 40 20 AND 59 46 49 29 / 100 90 40 20 CLT 59 45 48 27 / 100 90 50 20 HKY 53 42 45 25 / 100 90 50 30 AVL 56 38 38 22 / 100 90 60 60 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...WINTER STORM WATCH FOR SATURDAY FOR ZONES NCZ033...NCZ048>052... NCZ058. SC...NONE. RWH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 10:55 AM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-192251- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1055 AM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 ...VERY HEAVY RAIN TO AFFECT THE REGION THROUGH TONIGHT...WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... LOW PRESSURE WAS LOCATED IN NORTHWEST GEORGIA LATE FRIDAY MORNING...WITH A COLD FRONT EXTENDING SOUTHWARD TO THE GULF COAST REGION. A WARM FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE LOW NORTHWARD TO SOUTHERN TENNESSEE...SOUTHEAST TO ALONG THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY...THEN NORTHWARD THROUGH THE SOUTHERN UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA...TO CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THIS FRONT WAS THE LEADING EDGE OF MUCH WARMER...UNSTABLE AIR...THAT WILL CONTINUE TO ADVANCE NORTHWARD...AS THE GEORGIA SURFACE LOW TRACKS OVER THE REGION. AS THE LOW PRESSURE AREA WORKS ITS WAY INTO THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THIS AFTERNOON...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS...AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS...WILL DEVELOP. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOST PREVALENT IN AREAS THAT SEE THE GREATEST RISE IN TEMPERATURES...AND WILL BE MORE ISOLATED WHERE THE AIR IS MOST STABLE. THE AIR OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS WAS STILL QUITE STABLE LATE FRIDAY MORNING...WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 40S. HOWEVER...TEMPERATURES HAD RISEN SHARPLY INTO THE 50S AND LOWER 60S IN PARTS OF THE PIEDMONT...FROM ELBERTON TO GREENWOOD...CLINTON...CHESTER AND MONROE. THE AIR WAS MUCH MORE MOISTURE-LADEN THERE...AND IT IS THESE AREAS THAT SEEM THE MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER TODAY. THE WIND PROFILE FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL SUPPORT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OVER 70 MPH...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE...BUT WIND DAMAGE FROM THUNDERSTORM GUSTS OR TORNADOES SEEMS THE MOST PROBABLE SEVERE WEATHER PHENOMENON WITH THE APPROACHING STORM. IN ADDITION TO SEVERE WEATHER...VERY HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL OCCUR LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT AS THE SURFACE LOW CROSSES THE REGION. SOME AREAS HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED NEARLY THREE INCHES OF RAIN...BUT FORTUNATELY...NO FLOODING HAS YET BEEN OBSERVED. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES CAN BE EXPECTED BY DAYBREAK SATURDAY. THE RAINFALL COULD BE HEAVY ENOUGH AT TIMES TO CREATE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS...AND IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. NO FLOOD...OR SEVERE WEATHER...WATCHES OR WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT...BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION CLOSELY AND ISSUE APPROPRIATE PRODUCTS AS NECESSARY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION...OR CAB;LE TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. BURRUS
Local storm report, Jan 19, 1:56 PM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
156 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
145 PM VANNA GA WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 HART TWO CHICKEN HOUSES
DAMAGED
LGLSpecial weather statement, Jan 19, 3:47 PM EST, 18 minutes before
GAZ026-028-029-SCZ010>012-019-192145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 347 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CLEARED THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 5... IN SOUTH CAROLINA... ABBEVILLE...ANDERSON...GREENWOOD...LAURENS IN GEORGIA... ELBERT...FRANKLIN AND HART. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED OUT OF THESE COUNTIES. BURRUS
Local storm report, Jan 19, 3:57 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
357 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOECATION....
350 PM CHARLOTTE NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
01/19/01 MECKLENBURG LITTLE ROCK ROAD. QUARTER
SIZE HAIL
LGLLocal storm report, Jan 19, 4:00 PM EST, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
400 PM EST FRI JAN 19 2001
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
355 PM HUNTERSVILLE NC PEA SIZE HAIL
01/19/01 MECKLENBURG PEA SIZE HAIL ON HIGHWAY
21 IN HUNTERSVILLE
LGLNearby
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.