Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 11:08 PM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina. It was in force for 37 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 27, 2002, 11:08 PM EDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 1134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 280308 SVRGSP SCC007-280345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1107 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ANDERSON COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT * AT 1107 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANDERSON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILLIAMSTON AT 1120 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. $$ HG
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 27, 9:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 9:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 910 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 RADAR/SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATE MCS ACROSS WEST CENTRAL GA MAKING STEADY PROGRESS TOWARD THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. ALTHOUGH CLOUD TOP TEMPS CONTINUE TO WARM IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS COMPLEX...MCS WILL HOLD TOGETHER TO AFFECT NORTHEAST GEORGIA...WESTERN UPSTATE...AND PROBABLY SOUTHERN NC MOUNTAINS. WILL ISSUE UPDATE TO BUMP POPS TO LIKELY IN ABOVE AREAS. WITH WANING INSTABILITY...AM NOT CONFIDENT ON HOW FAR NORTHEAST INTO OUR CWA MCS WILL TRACK...AND WILL KEEP POPS IN THE CHANCE RANGE ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT AND NORTHERN FOOTHILLS. OTHERWISE...FORECAST IS IN GOOD SHAPE. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. LANE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 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.