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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 25, 2001Polk County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 3:54 PM EDT for Polk County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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 25, 2001, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2001, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Polk County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 25, 4:05 PM EDT	Hail 1	Mill Spg, NC	Quarter-sized hail observed in Mill Spring.

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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 301 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 239 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

665 
WUUS52 KGSP 251955
SVRGSP
NCC149-252045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
354 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 354 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 3 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF COLUMBUS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAKE ADGER AT 355 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.

$$

HG/VAD

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 25, 3:25 PM EDT, 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:25 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
325 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

UPPER LOW WL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY PULL AWAY TO THE W OVER THE NEXT 36
HRS. LOOKS LIKE GOOD PVA AND SFC CONVERGENCE COMING INTO THE ERN
SLOPES OF THE NC/SC MTNS TNGT. ATTM PCPN OVER THE MTNS AND UPSTATE
IS WIDESPREAD...BUT INTENSITY HAS SHOWN A BIT OF DECREASE.
HOWEVER...THINK THAT AS THE EVENING WEARS ON...CONVECTION SHOULD
REFIRE IN UPSLOPE AREAS NE OF THE LOW CENTER.

AS A RESULT...PLAN ON ISSUING A FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE SRN NC
MTNS...WRN SC UPSTATE AND NE GA. WON/T PUSH INTO THE FRENCH BROAD
VALLEY OR THE NC FOOTHILLS AS CONVECTION IS MOVING MORE QUICKLY
THESE ZONES.

PREVIOUS SHIFT HAD LIKELY POPS W TUE AND CHANCE E. THIS STILL LOOKS
GOOD BASED ON LATEST MODEL PROGS OF DEEPER MOISTURE AND STRONGER
KINEMATICS OVER WRN ZONES TMRW.

WL HOLD ON TO CHANCE POPS FOR THE DURATION OF THE EXTENDED
PERIOD...WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ERN ZONES WED. HPC KEEPS POPS
RATHER HIGH DURING THE ENTIRE PERIOD...THOUGH I DO HAVE MY DOUBTS
W/A LACK OF MUCH ALOFT.

FCSTID = 14
GSP   62  82  65  88 /  60  50  30  20
AND   62  82  65  88 /  60  50  30  20
CLT   62  83  65  87 /  50  40  20  20
HKY   62  80  64  85 /  70  50  30  20
AVL   60  76  60  80 /  80  60  30  30

.GSP...
GA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ZONES
GAZ010-017-018-026-028.
NC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ZONES
NCZ051-052-053-059-062>064.
SC...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT FOR ZONES
SCZ001-002-004-005-010.

MCAVOY

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 25, 11:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-252100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1110 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING...

AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL DRIFT SLOWLY WEST ACROSS
THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. LAST NIGHT...THIS SAME LOW BROUGHT AS
MUCH AS 6 INCHES OF RAIN TO THE CAROLINA PIEDMONT. AS THE ATMOSPHERE
HEATS UP THIS AFTERNOON...WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL
DEVELOP. THE STORMS WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY. IN FACT...STORMS WHICH
DEVELOP IN THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS MAY NOT MOVE AT AT ALL.

THUS THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SOME LOCATIONS TO RECEIVE SEVERAL
INCHES OF RAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH
HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED AS THE AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAIN APPEARS MOST
LIKELY HAVE NOT SEEN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE PAST 24 HOURS.
HOWEVER...IF HEAVY RAIN DOES DEVELOP...WATCHES MAY BE NEED FOR PARTS
OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA.

IN ADDITION TO THE HEAVY RAIN...COLD AND RATHER DRY AIR ALOFT WILL
ALLOW SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL
UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.

SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION.

MCAVOY

Local storm report, Jun 25, 11:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1155 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1144 AM    CLAYTON                   GA   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/01   RABUN                          CLAYTON 911 CENTER
                                          REPORTED HAIL NOW ENDED
                                          BUT DIME TO GOLFBALL SIZE
                                          JUST PRIOR AT 1140 AM.

TJB

Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:18 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
318 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

255 PM     8 W ANDERSON              SC   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/25/01   ANDERSON                       REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

300 PM     6 NE GAFFNEY              SC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/01   CHEROKEE                       REPORTED BY STORM SPOTTER

310 PM     7 W SPARTANBURG           SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/25/01   SPARTANBURG                    TREES DOWN ON FAIRFOREST
                                          AND WILLIS ROADS

310 PM     1 W SPARTANBURG           SC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/01   SPARTANBURG                    DIME SIXE HAIL AT
                                          COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

RBN

Local storm report, Jun 25, 3:39 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
339 PM EDT MON JUN 25 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

333 PM     LEICESTER                 NC   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/25/01   BUNCOMBE                       911 REPORT FROM LEICESTER
                                          POLICE

DICARLO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 9:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	28 min
Jun 24, 11:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cleveland	3 hr
Jun 25, 5:12 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cleveland	33 min
Jun 25, 5:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cleveland	3 hr
Jun 25, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rutherford	55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2001 Every 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.