Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2002, 7:20 PM EDT for McDowell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 13, 2002, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County McDowell County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 132320 SVRGSP NCC111-140000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 719 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MCDOWELL COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 719 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARION...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OLD FORT...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SUGAR HILL AT 745 PM EDT. GLENWOOD AT 755 PM EDT. FERO AT 800 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. $$ NED/BPM
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 13, 3:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 321 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2002 KGSP 88D CONTINUES TO INDICATE A FEW TSTMS ALONG LEE TROUGH IN NC FTHLS WITH BETTER CVRG WEST OF MTNS WHERE GREATER INSTABILITY EXISTS. WOULD STILL EXPECT SOME ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY THRU EARLY EVENING ALONG THE LEE TROUGH & IN MTNS...BUT LESS CERTAIN FOR POINTS SE WHERE DRIER DWPTS HAVE MIXED DOWN. SUBTLE VORTS... SMALL SCALE BNDRYS AND OUTFLOWS PROPAGATING EAST WILL KEEP AT LEAST WESTERN PARTS OF THE CWFA UNDER A THUNDERSTORM THREAT EVEN PAST DIURNALLY FAVORED TIMEFRAME AND WILL KEEP POP WORDING FOR TONIGHT AS SUCH. WE MAY BE DEALING WITH ORGANIZED TSTMS...OR REMNANTS THEREOF... TOMORROW MORNING...WITH DECENT SLUG OF OMEGA TRANSLATING EASTWARD ACRS THE CWFA 12-18Z. AS UPPER TROUGH DEEPENS ACRS THE EASTERN U.S. FRIDAY...THERES LITTLE DOUBT THAT COOLING ALOFT AND A STRENGTHENING VERTICAL WIND PROFILE WILL ACCOMPANY...BUT TIMING WITH GREATEST INSTABILITY MAY WIND UP BEING EAST OF THE CWFA. AT ANY RATE...AS FAR AS ZFP IS CONCERNED SEE LTL REASON TO DEVIATE FROM GOING CHC POPS CWFA WIDE. LLVL CAA AND PROGRESSIVE DRYING IN WAKE OF FRONT WILL BE FEATURED FRIDAY NIGHT...AS LLVL UPSLOPE MOISTURE LINGERS ACRS NC MTNS INTO SATURDAY. 12Z AVN STILL ROUGHLY SUPPORTS IDEA OF RETURN FLOW MOISTURE AND PCPN REDEVELOPING MONDAY OR MONDAY NIGHT...SO WILL ADD POP WORDING FOR THIS PERIOD. MEAN ENSEMBLE POPS STILL HIGHEST ON TUESDAY...SO WILL CONTINUE GOING POP WORDING FOR THEN AS WELL. FCSTID = 55 GSP 68 88 64 84 / 20 40 10 0 AND 69 89 64 85 / 20 40 10 0 CLT 69 88 64 84 / 20 40 10 0 HKY 67 85 62 82 / 20 40 10 0 AVL 65 81 58 79 / 30 40 10 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke | 58 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.