Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 6:02 PM EDT for Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 4, 2002, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rabun County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1014 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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.
098 WUUS52 KGSP 042202 SVRGSP GAC241-042300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 600 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 600 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLAYTON...OR NEAR TIGER. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CLAYTON AT 620 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. $$ WAJ/RB
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 Jun 4, 2:02 PM EDT, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:02 PM EDT, 4 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 202 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 RIDGE ALOFT CONT OVER SE US WITH MOIST LOW AND MID LEVEL FLOW OVER CWA. AREA REMAINS UNSTABLE BUT WITH A LACK OF ANY STRONG TRIGGERS FOR CONVECTION. EXPECT WEAK UPSLOPE FLOW TO BE ENOUGH FOR AT LEAST SCT AFTN-EVE CONVECTION. DUE TO WEAK STEERING WINDS THERE WILL BE LITTLE MOVEMENT OF STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP AND PRECIP WATER VALS ABV ONE AND A HALF INCHES POINT TOWARD POSSIBLE RUNOFF PROBLEMS LATE THIS AFN-EVE AND WED AFTN-EVE ALSO. WILL STICK WITH SCT CONVECTION BOTH DAYS. ON THU THE ETA BRINGS AN UPPER TROF SE TOWARD CWA WITH A COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO NC MTNS DURG DAY. AVN STALLS THE FRONT OVER NC THU. WITH THIS IN MIND WILL KEEP POPS IN FOR THU NIGHT BUT NOT CHANGE CURRENT DRY FCST FOR FRI. WKND LOOKS DRY...THEN A SIG SHRTWV TROF DROPS IN FROM THE W LATE SUN NIGHT INTO TUE. HAVE ADDED CHANCE POPS FOR MON AND TUE. FCSTID = 77 GSP 70 91 70 85 / 20 30 30 40 AND 71 92 70 86 / 20 30 30 40 CLT 69 92 70 86 / 20 30 30 40 HKY 69 88 69 83 / 20 30 30 40 AVL 66 86 66 80 / 30 40 40 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:22 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
222 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
215 PM MARSHALL NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 MADISON SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER
SIZE HAIL NEAR MARSHALL
JONESLocal storm report, Jun 4, 2:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
238 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
432 PM CANTON NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 HAYWOOD SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER
SIZE HAIL
PATLocal storm report, Jun 4, 2:38 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
238 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
232 PM CANTON NC 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 HAYWOOD SPOTTER REPORTED QUARTER
SIZE HAIL
PATLocal storm report, Jun 4, 4:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
408 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
403 PM BURNSVILLE NC .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 YANCEY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT
REPORTED DIME HAIL JUST
OUTSIDE BURNSVILLE
JONESLocal storm report, Jun 4, 5:37 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
537 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
532 PM WEAVERVILLE NC 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/04/02 BUNCOMBE BUNCOMBE COUNTY 911
REPORTED GOLFBALL SIZED
HAIL IN WEAVERVILLE.
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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.