Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2002, 7:49 PM EDT for Abbeville County, Greenwood County, South Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 9, 2002, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Abbeville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 223 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 092349 SVRGSP SCC001-047-100030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 748 PM EDT THU MAY 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ABBEVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA GREENWOOD COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 748 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ABBEVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF VERDERY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... VERDERY AT 755 PM EDT. GREENWOOD AT 800 PM EDT. CORONACA AT 805 PM EDT. NINETY SIX AT 810 PM EDT. 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. $$ JDL
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 9, 7:10 PM EDT, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 7:10 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 710 PM EDT THU MAY 9 2002 UPDATE FOR SVR WW #271 WILL BE OUT SHORTLY. FCSTID =16 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. DIXON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 9, 5:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
GAZ018-026-028-029-SCZ010-011-092230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 533 PM EDT THU MAY 9 2002 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE... AT 535 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE LINE WILL MOVE EAST AT 35 MPH...AND AFFECT AREAS FROM CLARKESVILLE TO TOCCOA AND CARNESVILLE BY 615 PM. THIS WILL ALSO INCLUDE MUCH OF LAKE HARTWELL. WINDS OF 40 MPH...TORRENTIAL RAIN...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THE LINE. IF THE STORMS CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN...THEY MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. MCAVOY
Local storm report, May 9, 7:26 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
726 PM EDT THU MAY 09 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
638 PM 7 NW HARTWELL GA WIND DAMAGE
05/09/02 HART NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
ACROOS NORTHERN PART OF
COUNTY BEGINNING AT TIME
GIVEN
709 PM 10 NE ELBERTON GA WIND DAMAGE
05/09/02 ELBERT TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN
726 PM 3 W GAFFNEY SC WIND DAMAGE
05/09/02 CHEROKEE FEW TREES ACROSS ROADWAY
RBNLocal storm report, May 9, 7:41 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
741 PM EDT THU MAY 09 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
715 PM 1 S SPARTANBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
05/09/02 SPARTANBURG FEW TREES DOWN ON SOUTH
SIDE OF CITY
720 PM 6 NE SPARTANBURG SC WIND DAMAGE
05/09/02 SPARTANBURG FEW TREES DOWN IN
CONVERSE AREA
RBNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 49 min |
| May 9, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 27 min |
| May 9, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 33 min |
| May 9, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2002Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.