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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 6, 2002Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2002, 5:09 PM EDT for Habersham County, Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 66 min. 2 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: Jul 6, 2002, 5:09 PM EDT (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Habersham County, GA, Rabun County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 6, 5:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Clarkesville, GA	Trees were blown down across the county.
Jul 6, 5:30 PM EDT	Hail 1	Batesville, GA

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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 1211 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 6, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 1:01 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before

GAZ018-026-028-029-SCZ004>014-019-062100-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
101 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 2002

...SEVERE WEATHER POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON...

LINGERING MOISTURE BEHIND A COLD FRONT WILL SUPPORT A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF EXTREME
NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME
SEVERE...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. THE THREAT OF
SEVERE WEATHER IS GREATEST ALONG A LINE FROM ELBERTON IN
GEORGIA...TO GREENWOOD IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR
THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER
SITUATION.

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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.