Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2001, 4:14 AM EDT for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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
- May 28, 2001, 4:14 AM EDT (08:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2001, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greenville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 280816 CCA SVRGSP SCC007-045-280845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 414 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2001 CORRECTED TO REMOVE ANDERSON COUNTY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 445 AM EDT * AT 414 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES EAST OF ANDERSON...OR ABOUT 6 MILES EAST OF BELTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SIMPSONVILLE AT 425 AM EDT FOUNTAIN INN AT 430 AM 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. $$ DELGADO
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 May 28, 3:20 AM EDT, 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:20 AM EDT, 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 320 AM EDT MON MAY 28 2001 GOING ZFP GENERALLY ON TRACK AS COMBINATION OF LLVL THETA-E ADVECTION ...DIVERGENCE IN RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF UPPER JET & DEEP LAYER OMEGA UPLIFT RESULT IN CONTINUED EASTWARD EXPANSION OF PCPN ACRS THE CWFA TODAY. GOING LIKELY POPS STILL LOOK GOOD...MAY EVEN GO HIGHER ACRS SOUTHWESTERN SECTIONS IF RADAR TRENDS CONTINUE. WEAK SFC FRONT STILL PROGGED TO DROP SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE CWFA TONIGHT...& MAINLY EVENING CHC POPS WARRANTED BASED ON BETTER LOOKING ETA/NGM QPF FIELDS. DRIER CONTINENTAL AIRMASS TO WORK INTO THE SOUTHEAST U.S. ON NORTHWEST FLOW TUESDAY. 00Z AVN SUPPORTS GOING EXTENDED FCST IN DEVELOPING PCPN IN RETURN FLOW THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO FRIDAY. FCSTID = 55 GSP 80 60 83 58 / 60 50 10 10 AND 80 60 83 58 / 60 50 10 10 CLT 80 60 83 59 / 60 50 10 10 HKY 80Z 57 80 57 / 60 40 10 10 AVL 76 52 76 53 / 60 50 10 10 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.