Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 2002, 8:30 AM EST for Haywood County, Madison County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 min. 3 reports 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
- Jan 24, 2002, 8:30 AM EST (13:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2002, 9:30 AM EST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Haywood County, NC, Madison County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 8:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Marshall, NC | A few trees were blown down. |
| Jan 24, 8:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Mars Hill, NC | A few trees were blown down. |
| Jan 24, 8:30 AM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Canton, NC | 2 trees were reported 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 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 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 241330 SVRGSP NCC087-115-241430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 829 AM EST THU JAN 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 930 AM EST * AT 829 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 16 MILES WEST OF MARSHALL...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF SPRING CREEK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LUCK AT 830 AM EST. CANTO AT 835 AM EST. SPRING CREEK AT 840 AM EST. HOT SPRINGS AT 855 AM EST. ALLENSTAND AT 910 AM EST. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. $$ DICARLO/JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 7:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Swain | 61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.