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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 6, 2002Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 4:25 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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 6, 2002, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 54 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 062025
SVRGSP
NCC161-062115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
424 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 423 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 8 MILES NORTH OF
  RUTHERFORDTON...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THERMAL CITY...MOVING
  EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SUNSHINE AT 440 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.

$$

BPM/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 6, 2:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
208 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

LL MOIST FLOW CONT AS UPPER SHRTWV TROF APPROACHES CWA. SHWRS DVLPNG
THIS AFTN WILL CONT MOVG THRU UNTIL UPPER TROF AND SFC FRONT MOVE
THRU MOST OF TONIGHT. MDLS IN BETTER AGREEMENT WITH 12Z RUN BUT ETA
IS A BIT MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH FROPA WHILE AVN SLOWS FRONT THRU S
PART OF CWA. WILL MAINTAIN SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS ACROSS SE WITH MOST
PRECIP ENDING AROUND MIDNIGHT. FRI THRU MON WILL BE COOLER AND DRYER
AS HIGH PRES BUILDS IN FROM THE N-NE...THEN ANOTHER FRONT IS FCST TO
AFFECT AREA LATE WED INTO THU.

FCSTID = 77
GSP   68  86  65  82 /  60  20  10  20
AND   69  87  66  83 /  60  20  10  20
CLT   67  83  62  80 /  60  20  10  10
HKY   64  81  59  76 /  40  20  10  10
AVL   61  77  59  75 /  50  10  10  20

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

RB

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 10:48 AM EDT, 5 hours 37 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-062300-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
1048 AM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND
NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON...

WITH WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS PERSISTING ACROSS THE AREA...THE
ATMOSPHERE IS EXPECTED TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE ONCE AGAIN THIS
AFTERNOON. THIS WILL PROVIDE A FAVORABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS.

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE MOUNTAINS LATER THIS AFTERNOON
PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS SHOULD THEN MOVE EAST INTO THE FOOTHILLS
AND PIEDMONT BY EVENING.

FORECASTS OF INSTABILITY AND WIND FIELDS INDICATE THAT THE POTENTIAL
EXISTS FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREATS FROM
THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL BE HAIL AS LARGE AS QUARTERS AND WIND
GUSTS TO 80 MPH. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE OVER
PIEDMONT SECTIONS...GENERALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 85...LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

ALTHOUGH STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE FASTER THAN THOSE OF RECENT
DAYS...HEAVY RAINFALL WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY OVER THE AREA. THIS
COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY IN  AREAS THAT
HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL DURING THE PAST TWO DAYS.

SPOTTERS MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED LATER THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON
THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL.

Local storm report, Jun 6, 3:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
324 PM EDT THU JUN 06 2002

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

318 PM     3 S MORGANTON             NC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/06/02   BURKE                          SPOTTER REPORT.

55

Local storm report, Jun 6, 3:32 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
332 PM EDT THU JUN 06 2002

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

325 PM     MORGANTON                 NC   WIND DAMAGE
06/06/02   BURKE                          EOC REPORTED TREES AND
                                          POWERLINES DOWN.

RB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke	42 min
Jun 6, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland, Gaston	39 min
Jun 6, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.