Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2001, 5:03 PM EDT for Habersham County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 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 5, 2001, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Habersham County, GA
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 052103 SVRGSP GAC137-052145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 503 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HABERSHAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 503 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLARKESVILLE... OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BATESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BATESVILLE AT 510 PM EDT CLARKESVILLE AT 535 PM EDT HOLLYWOOD AT 545 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. $$ 07
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 5, 3:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 323 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2001 MODELS WERE SHOWING A WEAK BOUNDARY AND BAND OF MOISTURE WORKING SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE CWA OVERNIGHT. SOME WEAK DPVA...OMEGA AND DIVERGENCE SHOULD ACCOMPANY THE PASSAGE. THIS AREA BECOMING QUITE UNSTABLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING...ESPECIALLY SOUTH WITH CAPES AROUND 2000 J/KG AND LI'S TO -5. LAPSE RATES BELOW 600 MB WILL ALSO EXCEED 8 DEGREES/KM OVER MUCH OF THE AREA FOR SEVERAL HOURS. SCATTERED CONVECTION ALREADY BEGINNING OVER AND NEAR THE MOUNTAINS AND THIS WILL SPREAD SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE EVENING. HAVE CONTINUED THE CHANCE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT OVER SOUTHERN SECTIONS EVEN THOUGH SOME STABILIZATION WILL OCCUR AFTER DARK... DUE TO THIS MODEL RUN SLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE UPPER DISTURBANCE. DRIER AIR WILL OVERSPREAD THE CWA ON FRIDAY AS UPPER RIDGING NOSES IN FROM THE WEST. THIS WILL HOLD THROUGH SATURDAY... BUT WEAK DISTURBANCES ROUNDING THE UPPER RIDGING WILL BEGIN TO WORK THEIR WAY BACK INTO THE AREA LATE IN THE WEEKEND. ANOTHER BOUNDARY WILL DROP INTO THE AREA LATE SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH A THIRD COMING IN ABOUT THURSDAY. THIS WILL HELP AID IN DEVELOPING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS. FCSTID = 69 GSP 69 90 68 92 / 40 10 0 0 AND 69 91 68 93 / 40 10 0 0 CLT 70 89 67 91 / 50 10 0 0 HKY 64 88 65 90 / 30 10 0 10 AVL 60 84 59 86 / 40 10 0 10 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RBN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 11:50 AM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
GAZ010-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>036-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-019- 052130- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1150 AM EDT THU JUL 5 2001 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD OCCUR AGAIN TODAY ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA... THE ATMOSPHERE BECAME SOMEWHAT DRY AND MORE STABLE OVERNIGHT ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT...BEHIND THE LINES OF THUNDERSTORMS WHICH MOVED ACROSS WEDNESDAY EVENING. SOME DRYING ALSO WAS NOTED ACROSS UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY WILL RECOVER THIS AFTERNOON TO SOME DEGREE. ALTHOUGH WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED...THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA...AND THE WESTERN PART OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. AS THE ATMOSPHERE RECOVERS...ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER CANNOT BE RULED OUT FARTHER EAST. ON WEDNESDAY...MOST LOCATIONS RECEIVED RAIN AS THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD AND SLOW-MOVING. ONLY A FEW LOCATIONS REPORTED SEVERE WEATHER...WHICH IS DEFINED AS LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SCATTERED...BUT A FEW MORE COULD BECOME SEVERE...ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN SECTIONS. DAMAGING WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE PRIMARY THREAT. 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. JONES
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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.