Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2002, 4:12 PM EDT for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 24, 2002, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mecklenburg County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Charlotte, NC | A few trees were blown down across the city. |
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 681 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
416 WUUS52 KGSP 242012 SVRGSP NCC119-242100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 411 PM EDT SAT AUG 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MECKLENBURG COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 411 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHARLOTTE... OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEWELL...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NEWELL AT 415 PM EDT. MINT HILL AT 430 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. $$ MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Iredell | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 52 min |
| Aug 24, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cabarrus | 50 min |
| Aug 24, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Mecklenburg | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.