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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 4, 2002Oconee County, South Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 10:41 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina; Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 49 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, 10:41 PM EDT (02:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2002, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Oconee County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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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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, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 8:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 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, 9:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 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

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:44 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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

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

930 PM     4 MI SW OF CLARKSVILLE    GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   HABERSHAM                      THUNDERSTORM PRODUCED ONE
                                          HALF INCH HAIL AND TREES
                                          FELLED BY STRONG WINDS
                                          NEAR DEMOREST

PELISSIER

Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:54 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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

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

910 PM     16 N GREENVILLE           SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   GREENVILLE                     TREE DOWN ON HIGHWAY
                                          414...NEAR TIGERVILLE
                                          SCHOOL. TREE BLOCKED THE
                                          ROAD FOR A SHORT TIME.
                                          REPORT FROM GREENVILLE
                                          COUNTY 911.

BURRUS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 10:02 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1002 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

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

950 PM     SPARTANBURG               SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   SPARTANBURG                    TREES DOWN ON CAMELOT
                                          DRIVE. REPORT FROM
                                          SPARTANBURG COUNTY 911.

BURRUS

Local storm report, Jun 4, 10:23 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1023 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

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

1000 PM    WESTMINSTER               SC   1.50 INCH HAIL
06/04/02   OCONEE                         SHERIFFS DEPUTY REPORTED
                                          ONE AND ONE HALF INCH
                                          HAIL IN WESTMINSTER.

PELISSIER

Local storm report, Jun 4, 10:28 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
1028 PM EDT TUE JUN 04 2002

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

1000 PM    CLARKSVILLE AND MT AIRY   GA   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/02   HABERSHAM                      THUNDERSTORM WINDS FELLED
                                          TREES IN CLARKSVILLE AND
                                          MT AIRY, REPORTED BY
                                          COUNTY 911 CENTER.

PELISSIER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 12:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Transylvania	39 min
Jun 5, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	41 min
Jun 4, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson, Greenville	45 min
Jun 4, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	38 min
Jun 4, 9:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	40 min
Jun 4, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Oconee	38 min
Jun 4, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	40 min
Jun 4, 10:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee	47 min
Jun 5, 12:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Anderson	44 min
Jun 5, 12:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Pickens	51 min
Jun 5, 12:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenwood	39 min
Jun 4, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Habersham, Rabun	49 min
Jun 4, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Stephens	33 min
Jun 4, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Franklin, Hart	41 min

Nearby

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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.