Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2001, 5:49 PM EDT for Caldwell County, North 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
- Jul 2, 2001, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Caldwell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 022151 SVRGSP NCC027-022215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 549 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CALDWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 549 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 7 MILES EAST OF LENOIR...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF KINGS CREEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HUDSON AT 555 PM EDT GRANITE FALLS AT 610 PM EDT RHODHISS AT 615 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
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 Jul 2, 3:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 3:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 343 PM EDT MON JUL 2 2001 SFC FNT HAS STALLED OVER THE CWFA...WHILE SLOWLY PUSHING SOUTH TO OUR EAST. AS A RESULT...DEW POINTS HAVE REMAINED HIGH ACROSS OUR CWFA...AND CONVECTION HAS BECOME WIDESPREAD OVER UPSTATE AND NE GA. ACTIVITY MORE SCATTERED OVER NC. THEREFORE WILL USE LIKELY POP OVER NE GA AND MOST OF UPSTATE. NGM HAS FINALLY COME AROUND TO OTHER MDLS WITH FNT STALLING OVER THE AREA THEN WASHING OUT. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS HIGH THROUGH THE PERIOD. SHOULD SEE QUITE A BIT OF CLOUDS TONIGHT WITH WEAK UPSLOPE DEVELOPING. ETA CONTINUES TO SHOW VERY HIGH UVV WITH PRECIP OVERNIGHT. THIS STILL PROBABLY OVERDONE...SO CHC POP OK. ATMOS REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE THRU THE PERIOD AS HIGH WITH DRIER COOLER AIR MOVES EAST AWAY FROM THE CWFA. EXPECT SCT AFT/EVE CONVECTION TO CONTINUE. COULD BE MORE WIDESPREAD WED AS IMPULSE MOVES THRU UPPER TROF...BUT HAVE KEPT CHC POP FOR NOW. TEMPS WILL REMAIN FAIRLY STABLE THRU THE PERIOD WITH NEARLY STEADY THICKNESSES AND NO AIR MASS CHANGE. FNT MOVES THRU THU SO CONTINUED POP. DRIER AIR MOVES IN FRI WITH TYPICAL SUMMER AIR MASS MOVING BACK IN SATURDAY. POPS AT OR BELOW CLIMO THRU THEN SO HAVE LEFT OUT OF EXTENDED FOR NOW. GSP 68 88 69 88 / 40 50 40 50 AND 68 88 69 88 / 40 50 40 50 CLT 67 86 68 88 / 40 40 40 50 HKY 66 83 67 86 / 30 30 30 50 AVL 64 82 64 83 / 30 40 40 50 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.