Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2001, 4:27 PM EDT for Habersham County, Georgia. It was in force for 48 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 3, 2001, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2001, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Habersham County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1492 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
061 WUUS52 KGSP 032027 SVRGSP GAC137-032115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 427 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HABERSHAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 427 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLARKESVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLARKESVILLE AT 430 PM EDT TURNERVILLE AT 440 PM EDT HOLLYWOOD AT 445 PM EDT MOUNT AIRY AT 450 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. $$
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 3, 3:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:14 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 314 PM EDT TUE JUL 3 2001 SUNSHINE OVER THE MOUNTAINS ALLOWED THE AREA TO BECOME VERY UNSTABLE. A WEAK WAVE MOVING INTO THE AREA HAS KICKED OFF NUMEROUS SH/TSRA. LOTS OF CONVECTION TO OUR SOUTH AS WELL WHERE MORE SUNSHINE HAS OCCURRED. A LITTLE LESS UNSTABLE IN THE CWFA OUTSIDE OF THE MTNS WHERE CLOUDS LINGERED. HOWEVER CONVECTION SHOULD FIRE AS WAVE AND BOUNDARIES FROM CURRENT ACTIVITY MOVE IN. WILL GO CATEGORICAL OVER THE MTNS AND NC FOOTHILLS WHERE CONVECTION ONGOING OR IMMINENT... LIKELY ELSEWHERE. FLOOD THREAT CONTINUES WITH HEAVY RAINERS AND SLOW MOVEMENT. BUT THREAT NOT SPECIFIC ENOUGH FOR SHORT TERM FFA ATTM. CONVECTION COULD CONTINUE MUCH OF THE NIGHT...BUT SHOULD BECOME MORE SCATTERED. A REMINDER...FIRST PERIOD POP BELOW IS CCF AND NOT CURRENT COVERAGE. ATMOS REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTABLE THRU THE PERIOD WITH WEAK WAVES MOVING THRU THE UPPER TROF. LEE TROF AND DIFFERENTIAL HEATING WILL HELP INITIATE CONVECTION WED. APPROACHING SFC FNT AN ADDITIONAL TRIGGER THU/THU NITE. AFTER TONIGHT...ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY BE MORE OF THE AFT/EVE VARIETY...BUT HAVE LEFT OUT OF ZONES FOR BREVITY. SFC FNT MOVES THRU THU NITE. SHORT LIVED DRIER COOLER HIGH MOVES IN. ATMOS QUICKLY MODIFIES INTO WARM HUMID SUMMERTIME AIR MASS. GUIDANCE INDICATES A POSSIBLE REPEAT OF WX FROM MONDAY AND TODAY ON DAYS 6/7. TIMING OF FRONT COULD BE PROBLEMATICAL. SINCE POPS DO NOT GO ABOVE CLIMO UNTIL TUE...HAVE LEFT OUT OF FCST UNTIL THEN. GSP 70 88 70 88 / 50 50 40 40 AND 70 88 70 88 / 50 50 40 40 CLT 70 87 70 87 / 50 50 40 40 HKY 67 86 68 85 / 50 50 40 40 AVL 65 84 65 83 / 50 50 40 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
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.