Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2002, 3:47 PM EDT for Alexander County, Davie County, Iredell County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 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 8, 2002, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2002, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Alexander County, NC, Davie County, NC, Iredell County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 081947 SVRGSP NCC003-059-097-082015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 347 PM EDT WED MAY 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN IREDELL COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA WEST CENTRAL DAVIE COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA NORTHEASTERN ALEXANDER COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 347 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF TAYLORSVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER LOVE VALLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... UNION GROVE AT 350 PM EDT. TURNERSBURG AT 410 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. $$ 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 May 8, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 155 PM EDT WED MAY 8 2002 IN THE SHORT TERM...LITTLE CHANGE FROM THE LAST COUPLE DAYS AS FAIRLY MOIST UNSTABLE AIR REMAINS OVER CWA WITH LITTLE IN THE WAY OF DISCERNABLE UPPER SHORTWAVES TO TRIGGER CONVECTION. IN FACT BOTH ETA AND AVN IN GOOD AGREEMENT SHOWING RIDGE BUILDING SLIGHTLY AND WEAK NVA INTO MID EVENING. WITH AIR UNSTABLE COULD STILL SEE SCATTERED STORMS LATE AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING AND WILL LEAVE THEM MENTIONED IN ZONES. SOME SMALL CELLS POPPING UP ALREADY. UPPER PATTERN IS NOT FORECAST TO CHANGE APPRECIABLY THROUGH THE WEEKEND...THEN A MAJOR SHORTWAVE TROF IS FCST TO DIVE TOWARD THE SE US...PUTTING AREA IN A BROAD UPPER TROF. IF THIS OCCURS THE SURFACE FRONT WILL PUSH S OF THE AREA...KEEPING CWA COOLER WITH TEMPS CLOSER TO AVG FOR THE FIRST PART OF NEXT WEEK. FCSTID = GSP 66 89 66 82 / 30 30 30 30 AND 67 90 67 83 / 30 30 30 30 CLT 65 88 64 82 / 30 30 30 30 HKY 63 85 61 81 / 30 30 30 30 AVL 57 79 55 74 / 30 30 40 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rowan | 40 min |
| May 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Alexander, Iredell | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.