Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2002, 9:24 PM EDT for Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 66 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 13, 2002, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2002, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iredell County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Statesville, NC | Some trees and powerlines 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1482 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 140124 SVRGSP NCC097-140230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 923 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN IREDELL COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 923 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 6 MILES WEST OF STATESVILLE...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTTS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STATESVILLE AT 930 PM EDT. TURNERSBURG AT 950 PM EDT. HARMONY AT 955 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, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:21 PM EDT, 6 hours 3 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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 13, 7:23 PM EDT, 2 hours 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
723 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
720 PM OLD FORT NC WIND DAMAGE
06/13/02 MCDOWELL TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY COUNTY
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.
705 PM BLACK MOUNTAIN NC WIND DAMAGE
06/13/02 BUNCOMBE TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY COUNTY
COMMUNICATIONS CENTER.
MCAVOYLocal storm report, Jun 13, 8:29 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
829 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
817 PM 5 NE MORGANTON NC 65 MPH TSTM GUST
06/13/02 BURKE REPORTED BY AUTOMATED
SENSOR.
MCAVOYLocal storm report, Jun 13, 9:12 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
912 PM EDT THU JUN 13 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
850 PM CONOVER NC WIND DAMAGE
06/13/02 CATAWBA TREES DOWN IN CONOVER.
REPORTED BY 911 CENTER.
MCAVOYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Caldwell | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Catawba | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2002Every 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.