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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 4, 2002Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 9:41 PM EDT for Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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: Jun 4, 2002, 9:41 PM EDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 4, 10:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Clarkesville, GA	Several trees were blown down.

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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KGSP 050141
SVRGSP
GAC137-241-050230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
941 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
  NORTHERN HABERSHAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 941 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES NORTH OF
  CLARKESVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BATESVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MOCCASIN CREEK STATE PARK AT 1010 PM EDT.
  LAKEMONT AT 1020 PM EDT.
  TIGER AT 1030 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.

$$

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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, 8:50 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:50 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
850 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002

LATEST LAPS ANALYSIS SHOWS RIDGE OF CAPE FROM NORTHEAST
GEORGIA MAX OF 4200 SOUTHWARD WEST OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER
THEN EASTWARD ALONG CWFA SOUTHERN BORDER TO SOUTH OF CLT.
LATEST RUC FORECAST LOOKS LIKE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE
ACROSS SOUTHERN AREAS WELL PAST MIDNIGHT.

ALSO CONCERN AS GEORGIA TSTMS DRIFT INTO LOWER STABILITY
LATER TONIGHT.  NORTH CAROLINA LOOKS PRETTY WORKED OVER
AND NOT MUCH ACTIVITY EXPECTED IN MOUNTAIN COUNTIES.

WITH ALL THAT IN MIND.  CURRENT PLAN IS TO UPDATE ZONES AT 930
CONTINUING TSTMS PAST MIDNIGHT IN PIEDMONT AND RAISING POPS
TO CHANCE CATEGORY OVER CLT AREA.

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

DICARLO

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
747 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

735 PM     ROYSTON                   GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   FRANKLIN                       ESTIMATED WINDS AT 40
                                          MPH.

NED

Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:57 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
857 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

835 PM     18 NE ANDERSON            SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   ANDERSON                       ANDERSON 911 REPORTS
                                          POWER OUTAGES IN THE 3
                                          AND 20 COMMUNITY...ON THE
                                          SOUTH SIDE OF THE EASLEY
                                          OUTER LIMITS. WINDS BLEW
                                          DOWN TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES AT THE INTERSECTION
                                          OF HIGHWAYS 81 AND 86.

BURRUS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:02 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
902 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

858 PM     7 SW OF CLARKSVILLE       GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   HABERSHAM                      SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
                                          CAUSED ONE HALF INCH HAIL
                                          AND DOWNED TREES JUST SW
                                          OF CORNELIA

PELISSIER

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:15 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
915 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

903 PM     5 SW CLARKESVILLE         GA   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   HABERSHAM                      HABERSHAM 911 REPORTED
                                          HAIL AS LARGE AS QUARTERS
                                          IN THE VICINITY OF ALTO.

BURRUS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:29 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
929 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

920 PM     GREER                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   SPARTANBURG                    POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN ON
                                          AIRPORT DRIVE AND
                                          BROCKMAN MCCLIMON ROAD.

920 PM     GREER                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   SPARTANBURG                    FOUR HANGERS DAMAGED AT
                                          FLIGHT WORLD JET PARK.

BURRUS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:29 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED SPELLING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
929 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

920 PM     GREER                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   SPARTANBURG                    POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN ON
                                          AIRPORT DRIVE AND
                                          BROCKMAN MCCLIMON ROAD.

920 PM     GREER                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   SPARTANBURG                    FOUR HANGARS DAMAGED AT
                                          FLIGHT WORLD JET PARK.

BURRUS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Stephens	33 min
Jun 4, 10:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham, Rabun	49 min
Jun 4, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Hart	41 min
Jun 5, 12:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Elbert	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.