Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 215
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT for 9 counties in Georgia; 18 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2002, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Fannin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Murray County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Blount County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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.
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sullivan | 45 min |
| 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, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cherokee, Clay | 37 min |
| May 2, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FFC | Whitfield | 33 min |
| May 2, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | McDowell, Rutherford | 44 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 977 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 49 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 73 more | 5 hr |
| May 3, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bleckley, Burke, Emanuel, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson and 2 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chowan, Currituck and 27 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davidson, Gaston and 7 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.