Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 12:19 AM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 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 25, 2001, 12:19 AM EDT (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2001, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 553 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 250420 SVRGSP SCC083-250445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1219 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1245 AM EDT * AT 1219 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAURENS...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CROSS ANCHOR...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CROSS ANCHOR AT 1240 AM EDT PAULINE AT 1245 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. $$ RBN
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 24, 9:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 955 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001 FORECAST TRENDS GOOD SO FAR. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE PROPAGATING INTO MORE STABLE AIR AND BELIEVE THEY WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH AS WE GET CLOSER TO MIDNIGHT. PLENTY OF OUTFLOWS HAVE COME OUT OF STORMS THIS EVENING SO NEW DEVELOPMENT COULD POP UP MOST ANYWHERE OUTSIDE THE MOUNTAINS FOR A BRIEF PERIOD. MAIN ACTIVITY HOWEVER SHOULD REMAIN ALONG BEST CONVERGENCE AXIS FROM JUST EAST OF SPARTANBURG TO WEST OF STATESVILLE. I DO NOT PLAN TO UPDATE AT THIS TIME BUT MAY TOWARDS MIDNIGHT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DIMINISH AS EXPECTED. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RBN
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 24, 9:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
926 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
855 PM 6 NE GAFFNEY SC WIND DAMAGE
06/24/01 CHEROKEE FEW TREES REPORTED DOWN
BY EMERGENCY MANAGER...
ALSO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
REPORTED.
RBNLocal storm report, Jun 24, 10:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1028 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY L5OCATION....
955 PM SHELBY NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/24/01 CLEVELAND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY EOC.
RBLocal storm report, Jun 24, 11:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1106 PM EDT SUN JUN 24 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 PM SHELBY NC FLASH FLOOD
06/24/01 CLEVELAND EOC REPORTS STORM DRAINS
BLOCKED AND STREET
FLOODING...
RBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 33 min |
| Jun 25, 5:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 2:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 6:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Laurens | 2 hr |
| Jun 25, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, York | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.