Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2003, 9:25 PM EDT for McCormick County, South Carolina; Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2003, 9:25 PM EDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lincoln County, GA, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 3084 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 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 KCAE 110125
SVRCAE
GAC181-SCC065-110200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
925 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL GEORGIA
CENTRAL MCCORMICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT.
* AT 917 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF LINCOLNTON..MOVING NORTHEAST AT
45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
MCCORMICK.
LAT...LON 3390 8262 3373 8254 3392 8194 3413 8204
AWPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Newberry | 42 min |
| Jul 10, 10:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 43 min |
| Jul 10, 11:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 51 min |
| Jul 10, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland, Sumter | 47 min |
| Jul 10, 11:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 43 min |
| Jul 10, 11:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 44 min |
| Jul 11, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 31 min |
| Jul 11, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 36 min |
| Jul 11, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington, Richland | 34 min |
| Jul 11, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg | 24 min |
| Jul 11, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 36 min |
| Jul 11, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 33 min |
| Jul 11, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Columbia, Richmond | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.