Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 7:51 PM EDT for Buncombe County, McDowell County, Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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
- Jun 4, 2001, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2001, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buncombe County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Rutherford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 042352 SVRGSP NCC021-111-161-050030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 751 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA EAST CENTRAL BUNCOMBE COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NORTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 751 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FROM 12 MILES WEST OF MARION TO 14 MILES EAST OF ASHEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... OLD FORT AT 800 PM EDT LAKE LURE AT 810 PM EDT MARION AT 825 PM EDT SUGAR HILL AT 830 PM 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. $$ BPM/RB
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 Jun 4, 6:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 621 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001 THE BOW ECHO OVER KY IS EXPECTED TO SLIDE ESE AND POSSIBLY AFFECT THE N MTNS...N FOOTHILLS...PART OF THE S FOOTHILLS AND THE S PIEDMONT OF NC UNTIL MIDNIGHT. WILL UPDATE ZONES FORECAST TO REFLECT THIS. FCSTID = 77 GSP 67 90 69 88 / 60 40 30 40 AND 67 90 69 88 / 60 40 30 40 CLT 66 90 68 87 / 60 40 30 40 HKY 64 88 66 86 / 50 50 40 60 AVL 61 84 63 81 / 50 40 40 60 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT... NCC003-011-021-023-025-027-035-045-059-097-1809-111-115-119 -121-159-161-171-179-199. SC...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 3:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-050300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 357 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001 ...A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT OVER MUCH OF THE AREA... AS OF THE LATE AFTERNOON...A STATIONARY FRONT CONTINUED TO EXTEND ALONG THE NORTH CAROLINA...SOUTH CAROLINA BORDER. A VERY HUMID AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS EXISTS ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS EVENING...ALONG THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND ALONG THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE MOUNTAINS. WITH RATHER COLD...AND VERY DRY AIR ALOFT...STORMS WHICH DEVELOP IN OR NEAR THE MOUNTAINS WILL TEND TO BECOME STRONG TO SEVERE AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT THIS EVENING. SIMILAR STORMS OCCURRED SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED AREAS OF LARGE HAIL. LATER TONIGHT...OTHER STRONG STORMS MAY MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PART OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE WEAKENING BY THE TIME THEY ENTER THE MOUNTAINS...HOWEVER...THE POTENTIAL WILL STILL EXIST FOR SOME DAMAGING WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION OR SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES OR WARNINGS. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS AxRE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. MCAVOY
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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.