Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 3:19 PM EDT for Greenville County, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 13, 2001, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greenville County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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 13, 3:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Spartanburg, SC | Scattered power outages resulted from trees and limbs downed on power lines. |
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 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 945 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
008 WUUS52 KGSP 131920 SVRGSP SCC045-083-132000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 319 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA EASTERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 14 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBUS...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF GOWENSVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LYMAN AT 325 PM EDT GREER AT 330 PM EDT REIDVILLE AT 340 PM EDT GREENVILLE AT 345 PM EDT MAULDIN AT 350 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. $$ RB/BPM
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 13, 2:40 PM EDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:40 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 240 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001 PERSISTENT BAND OF RAIN CONTINUES TO WRAP AROUND THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE CIRCULATION AROUND A SUBTROPICAL LOW...AND ACROSS PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NC. HAVE DECIDED THAT BEST COURSE OF ACTION WAS TO THROW UNION COUNTY NC INTO A SHORT FUSE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO ACCOUNT FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN...SEEN ON KRAX RADAR...MOVING WESTWARD INTO THE AREA FOR NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. ZONES WILL BE UPDATED MOMENTARILY TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. WHILE I AM AT IT...WILL TWEAK HIGH TEMPS TO ACCOUNT FOR LATEST OBS. REGULAR AFD FOR AFTERNOON ZONE PACKAGE WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 8 PM FOR UNION COUNTY...NCZ082. SC...NONE. MOORE
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 12:10 PM EDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-132000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1210 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON...DUE TO LINGERING TROPICAL MOISTURE...AS AN OLD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES AWAY TO THE EAST. A SMALL BUT STRONG UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THROUGH THIS EVENING...WHICH WILL AID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY GROW STRONG ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...AND A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP SHOULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...PERHAPS ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME FLOODING PROBLEMS IF SEVERAL STORMS MOVE ACROSS THE SAME LOCATION. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER THE MOUNTAINS...WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF A SEVERE STORM OR TWO MOVING OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS INTO THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT IN THE LATE AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING. CONTINUING RAIN AND CLOUDS LATE THIS MORNING OVER PARTS OF THE PIEDMONT...FROM YORK AND UNION SOUTH CAROLINA...TO SOUTH OF CHARLOTTE...WILL REDUCE THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATlHER IN THOSE LOCATIONS. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 25 min |
| Jun 13, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South 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.