Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 285, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 7, 2002, 12:48 AM EDT for Habersham County, Georgia. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2002, 12:48 AM EDT (04:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2002, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Habersham County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
070 WUUS52 KGSP 070448 SVRGSP GAC137-070530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1248 AM EDT MON OCT 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HABERSHAM COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA * UNTIL 130 AM EDT * AT 1248 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 14 MILES WEST OF CLARKESVILLE...AND NEAR TURNERVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... HOLLYWOOD AT 1250 AM EDT. TURNERVILLE AT 1250 AM EDT. BATESVILLE AT 100 AM EDT. CLARKESVILLE AT 105 AM 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. $$ RB
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 Oct 6, 9:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 9:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 927 PM EDT SUN OCT 6 2002 JUST TWEAKS TO THE GRIDS EXPECTED THIS EVENING AS PLAN ON STAYING THE COURSE ADVERTISING A GRADUAL INCREASE IN DEEPER MOISTURE AND LARGE SCALE LIFT MOVING IN FROM THE WEST. WILL MOVE UP TIMING OF PCPN CHCS FOR SW NC MTNS/NE GA MTNS BASED ON ISOLATED DEEP CONVECTION WHICH HAS SPREAD INTO SW NC. FCSTID = 55 GSP 63 79 52 72 / 10 30 10 0 AND 64 79 53 73 / 10 30 10 0 CLT 63 80 53 72 / 10 30 20 0 HKY 61 77 50 71 / 10 30 10 0 AVL 58 73 46 69 / 20 30 10 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 6, 5:46 AM EDT, 19 hours 2 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-061145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 546 AM EDT SUN OCT 6 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. RB
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.