Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 8:16 PM EDT for Henderson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 4, 2001, 8:16 PM EDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:35 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Bat Cave, NC | Public report of dime-sized hail. |
| Jun 4, 8:50 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Hendersonville, NC | Fire department reported nickel-sized hail in Hendersonville. |
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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 1079 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 050016 SVRGSP NCC089-050100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 816 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN HENDERSON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 816 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF HENDERSONVILLE...OR ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF BAT CAVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BAT CAVE AT 825 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. $$ 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 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 6:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 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, 4 hours 19 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, Caldwell | 45 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.