Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT for Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 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 26, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rabun County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 26, 3:12 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Dillard, 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 615 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
662 WUUS52 KGSP 261900 SVRGSP GAC241-262000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 300 PM EDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 300 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 6 MILES NORTH OF CLAYTON...OR ABOUT OVER DILLARD...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MOUNTAIN CITY AT 305 PM EDT. SKY VALLEY AT 315 PM EDT. PINE MOUNTAIN AT 350 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. $$ 99/44
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 Aug 26, 11:09 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 11:09 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1109 AM EDT MON AUG 26 2002 12Z UPR AIR CHARTS SHOW H5 COLD TROF THAT WILL ROTATE THRU THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. IT AND WV LOOP SHOW DRY MID LEVEL AIR MOVING IN. H25 JET ALSO ACROSS THE AREA WITH DIFFLUENCE AT H25 AND H5. GOOD LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE CONTINUES. 12Z RAOBS SHOW ATMOS WILL STILL BE MODERATELY UNSTABLE EVEN IF DEW POINTS FALL A LITTLE. WILL KEEP LIKELY POP NRN SECTIONS AND UP TO 50 POP ELSEWHERE. WITH THE PARAMETERS MENTIONED ABOVE SEVERE TSRA A POSSIBILITY. WILL ISSUE AN SPS TO COVER. TEMPS LOOK GOOD GIVEN CLOUD COVER AND LATER CONVECTION. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 12:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-262100- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1246 PM EDT MON AUG 26 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME NUMEROUS BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. COLD DRY AIR ALOFT WILL HELP PRODUCE AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE. THIS...COMBINED WITH STRONG WINDS ALOFT...WILL INCREASE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. DAMAGING WIND GUSTS WILL BE THE MOST LIKELY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ANYWHERE ACROSS EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA...AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. RWH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Hart | 38 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.