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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 2, 2002Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2002, 7:05 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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: Jul 2, 2002, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 55 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 23:05 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 2, 7:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Caroleen, NC	Numerous trees were blown down. Two people were injured on the morning of the 3rd, when a large tree damaged by the storm fell.

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 12:00Z, 11.1 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: 1124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1269 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 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.

759 
WUUS52 KGSP 022305
SVRGSP
NCC161-030000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
705 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 704 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUTHERFORDTON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF CLIFFSIDE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLIFFSIDE AT 705 PM EDT.
  HARRIS AT 710 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.

$$
JT/WAJ

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 Jul 2, 6:32 PM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 6:32 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
632 PM EDT TUE JUL 2 2002

CONVECTIVE CLUSTER TRAINING S OVER THE NRN NC MTNS AND FOOTHILLS
WILL WORK OVER ALREADY SATURATED GROUND THROUGH THE EARLY OVERNIGHT.
WILL TOSS OUT A FLOOD WATCH TO HEIGHTEN AWARENESS IN THIS AREA. NO
OTHER CHANGES TO ZONES EXCEPT HYDRO WORDING AND HIGHER POPS.

FCSTID = 33
GSP   72  93  71  92 /  40  30  30  30
AND   72  93  71  92 /  40  30  30  30
CLT   69  93  68  92 /  30  30  30  30
HKY   69  91  68  90 /  30  30  30  30
AVL   68  88  67  87 /  50  40  40  30

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 400 AM WEDNESDAY FOR ZONES
     NCZ033>034...NCZ049>050...NCZ054>055.
SC...NONE.

HG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 2, 6:23 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
623 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002

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

616 PM     5 S BELTON                SC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02   ANDERSON                       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          BY HYDROLOGIST.

TJB

Local storm report, Jul 2, 6:33 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
633 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002

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

620 PM     5 N BAKERSVILLE           NC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02   MITCHELL                       SPOTTER REPORTED .5 TO
                                          .75 HAIL

LANE

Local storm report, Jul 2, 6:42 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
642 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002

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

635 PM     BRYSON CITY               NC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02   SWAIN                          REPORTED BY SPOTTER

LANE

Local storm report, Jul 2, 6:46 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
646 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002

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

530 PM     SPRING CREEK AREA         NC   .75 INCH HAIL
07/02/02   MADISON                        DIME SIZE HAIL AND POWER
                                          OUTAGES REPORTED BY
                                          MADISON EOC.

TJB

Local storm report, Jul 2, 6:54 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
654 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002

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

645 PM     BRYSON CITY               NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   SWAIN                          TREES BLOWN DOWN IN
                                          BRYSON CITY BETWEEN 630
                                          AND 645 PM. TAR PAPER
                                          PEELED FROM ROOF OF
                                          COMMERCIAL BUILDING.

TJB

Local storm report, Jul 2, 7:04 PM EDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
704 PM EDT TUE JUL 02 2002

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

615 PM     BELMONT                   NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/02/02   GASTON                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN, SOME ON HOUSES

655 PM     NEWLAND                   NC   LIGHTNING
07/02/02   AVERY                          POWER OUTAGES AND
                                          NUMEROUS LIGHTNING
                                          STRIKES.  CREEK ACROSS
                                          ROAD IN NEWLAND BUT
                                          SUBSIDING.

TJB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Macon	37 min
Jul 2, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	49 min
Jul 2, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	38 min
Jul 2, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Madison	39 min
Jul 2, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Madison	42 min
Jul 2, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery	57 min
Jul 2, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	52 min
Jul 2, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Swain	66 min
Jul 2, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	60 min
Jul 2, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Mecklenburg	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2002 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.