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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 2, 2002Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2002, 9:42 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 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: May 2, 2002, 9:42 PM EDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2002, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Cleveland County, NC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 2, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 566 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KGSP 030142
SVRGSP
NCC045-030215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
942 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CLEVELAND COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 942 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  RUTHERFORDTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF CASAR...MOVING EAST AT 60
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CASAR AT 940 PM EDT.
  BELWOOD AT 945 PM EDT.

THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AS IT MOVED 
ACROSS RUTHERFORD AND MCDOWELL COUNTIES.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 TO 100 MPH. THESE
WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE
HOMES AND SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE OR WIND-DRIVEN HAIL CAN
INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE.

$$
WAJ/LGL

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 May 2, 9:36 PM EDT, 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 9:36 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
936 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

UPDATING FOR SVR TSTM WATCH 217...RAISING POP IN E.

FCSTID =
GSP   65  74  55  69 /  80  40  60  50
AND   64  76  56  70 /  70  40  60  50
CLT   65  73  54  69 /  80  30  60  50
HKY   61  69  51  66 /  80  30  60  40
AVL   54  65  47  63 / 100  30  60  50

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

TOMKO

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 8:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
826 PM EDT THU MAY 02 2002

CORRECTED TIME OF REPORT

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

800 PM     BRYSON CITY               NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02   SWAIN                          TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.

MOORE

Local storm report, May 2, 8:51 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
851 PM EDT THU MAY 02 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

830 PM     MAGGIE VALLEY             NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02   HAYWOOD                        TREES DOWN MOSTLY IN
                                          MAGGIE VALLEY, MARBLE
                                          SIZE HAIL IN WAYNESVILLE.

TJB

Local storm report, May 2, 8:57 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
826 PM EDT THU MAY 02 2002

CORRECTED TIME OF REPORT

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

800 PM     BRYSON CITY               NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02   SWAIN                          TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE.

MOORE

Local storm report, May 2, 9:05 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
905 PM EDT THU MAY 02 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

855 PM     JUPITER                   NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02   BUNCOMBE                       QUITE A FEW TREES DOWN,
                                          HAIL UNKNOWN SIZE.

TJB

Local storm report, May 2, 9:11 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
911 PM EDT THU MAY 02 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

835 PM     DICKS CREEK              NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02   JACKSON                        NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN IN COMMUNITY
                                          OF DICKS CREEK.
                                          ADDITIONAL TREES AND
                                          POWER LINES DOWN
                                          COUNTYWIDE

MOORE

Local storm report, May 2, 9:14 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
914 PM EDT THU MAY 02 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

905 PM     SKYLAND                   NC   WIND DAMAGE
05/02/02   BUNCOMBE                       MULTIPLE TREES DOWN AT
                                          SKYLAND.

TJB

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Haywood	49 min
May 2, 8:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	38 min
May 2, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell, Rutherford	44 min
May 2, 9:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Catawba, Lincoln	43 min
May 2, 10:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Iredell	37 min
May 2, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rowan	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.