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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 14, 2001Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 2:39 PM EDT for Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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 14, 2001, 2:39 PM EDT (18:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Rabun County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 321 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1921 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

707 
WUUS52 KGSP 141840
SVRGSP
GAC241-141915-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
239 PM EDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLAYTON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES WEST
  OF DILLARD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DILLARD AT 240 PM EDT
  SKY VALLEY AT 245 PM EDT
  PINE MOUNTAIN AT 305 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.

$$

RBN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 9:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPElbert40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.