Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2002, 3:59 PM EDT for Haywood County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 3, 2002, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Haywood County, NC
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Cruso, NC |
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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 280 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
- 757 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 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.
269 WUUS52 KGSP 031959 SVRGSP NCC087-032045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 359 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HAYWOOD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 358 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS 11 MILES EAST OF WAYNESVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER CRUSO...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CRUSO AT 400 PM EDT. SUNBURST AT 440 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. THIS SLOW MOVING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS. $$
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 Jun 3, 2:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 239 PM EDT MON JUN 3 2002 UPPER RIDGE REMAINS STRONG OVER SE US NEXT COUPLE DAYS. WARM...MOIST...UNSTABLE S FLOW WILL CONT HOWEVER SO WILL KEEP CHANCE TRW IN MTNS/NC FOOTHILLS THIS EVE WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE W UPSTATE SC AND NE GA. CHANCE TRW CONT TUE AND WED WITH INCREASING COVERAGE AS SYSTEM APPROACHES AREA FROM THE W LATE WED. FOR THE EXTENDED PERIOD...FRONTAL BOUNDARY STILL APPEARS TO BE HEADING THROUGH AREA THU INTO FRI. ONCE THIS FEATURE PUSHES THRU...EXPECT COOLER DRYER AIR FOR WEEKEND. MODELS BRING RETURN FLOW NORTH LATE SUN INTO MON FOR S AND W ZONES SO WILL INCREASE CLOUDS BUT WILL NOT ADD POPS ATTM. FCSTID = 77 GSP 71 92 71 91 / 20 20 30 30 AND 72 93 72 92 / 20 20 30 30 CLT 70 91 70 90 / 20 20 20 30 HKY 67 88 68 88 / 30 30 30 30 AVL 64 86 65 85 / 30 30 30 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 3, 10:42 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033-034-048>055-058-059-062>067- SCZ001>007-010>013-019-032000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1042 AM EDT MON JUN 3 2002 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING... THE ATMOSPHERE IN A LARGE PART OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA REMAINS VERY UNSTABLE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. A COUPLE OF BOUNDARIES...SEPARATING VERY MOIST AIR AT THE SURFACE...FROM DRIER AIR TO THE NORTHEAST...MAY HELP FOCUS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT TODAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 77 CORRIDOR. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS...SOUTH THROUGH THE WESTERN PART OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. ALTHOUGH COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE GREAT...SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. SMALL AREAS WOULD BE AFFECTED BY THE SEVERE WEATHER. LARGE HAIL FROM DIME TO QUARTER SIZE...AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS FROM 60 TO 80 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREATS. EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN COULD FALL...AS MOST STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE VERY SLOWLY. LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD RESULT...ESPECIALLY IF A STORM DEVELOPS OVER AN URBAN AREA. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. JONES
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.