Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2001, 6:03 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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
- Jul 4, 2001, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2001, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rutherford County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lake Lure, NC | Numerous trees and power lines knocked down. |
| Jul 4, 6:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Rutherfordton, NC | Numerous trees and power lines blown down between Rutherfordton and Forest City. Power poles were snapped in half. Urban flooding occurred, closing three streets. A car was trapped under downed power lines. Some trees were blown onto houses. |
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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 509 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 042203 SVRGSP NCC161-042245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 603 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 603 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES NORTH OF RUTHERFORDTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF THERMAL CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SPINDALE AT 605 PM EDT SUNSHINE AT 615 PM EDT ELLENBORO AT 630 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. $$ NEAL/JONES
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 4, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 330 PM EDT WED JUL 4 2001 CONVECTION MAINLY SCATTERED OVER CWFA FOR NOW. SHORT WAVE MOVING THRU UPPER TROF HELPING TO SET UP SQUALL LINE TO OUR NORTHWEST. THIS LINE WILL MOVE INTO THE MTNS BY EVENING. SVR TSRA POSSIBLE WITH THE LINE. OTHER STRONG CONVECTION FORMING ALONG LEE TROF OVER FOOTHILLS. ISOLATED SVR TSRA POSSIBLE HERE AS WELL. WILL USE AT LEAST LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS THIS EVENING AS CONVECTION WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS. ATMOS DRIES OUT A LITTLE WITH WLY FLOW THU. HOWEVER ANOTHER SHORT WAVE/THERMAL TROF AND SFC FNT MOVE THRU. SCT AFT CONVECTION POSSIBLE...BUT MUCH LESS COVERAGE THAN TODAY. 30 POP SHOULD SUFFICE. HIGHS VARY ONLY A LITTLE AS LOW LEVEL THICKNESSES REMAIN NEARLY THE SAME. HOWEVER LOWS THU AND FRI NITES SHOULD BE LOWER GIVEN CLEAR SKIES AND LOWER DEW POINTS. GSP 70 89 65 90 / 50 30 0 0 AND 70 89 65 90 / 50 30 0 0 CLT 70 89 65 88 / 50 30 0 0 HKY 67 87 63 87 / 50 30 0 0 AVL 65 86 60 85 / 50 30 0 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.