Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 284
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2001, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 72 counties
Banks County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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.
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Banks, Jackson | 26 min |
| May 24, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Greene, Oglethorpe | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 287 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
- 1654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 35 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.