Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 5:05 PM EST for Abbeville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 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
- Mar 19, 2003, 5:05 PM EST (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Abbeville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 730 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
705
WUUS52 KGSP 192205
SVRGSP
SCC001-192245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
505 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN ABBEVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 545 PM EST
* AT 505 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ABBEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ABBEVILLE AT 510 PM EST.
DUE WEST AT 525 PM EST.
DONALDS AT 535 PM EST.
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.
LAT...LON 3406 8245 3409 8257 3447 8232 3441 8225
3434 8234 3417 8225 3406 8235
$$
07What 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 Mar 19, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 3:00 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 300 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 LARGE UPPER LEVEL CLOSED LOW TO OPEN AND LIFT NE THURSDAY. COLD AIR DAMMING TO CONTINUE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY MORNING...WITH ISENTROPIC LIFT AND UPSLOPE COMPONENT TO PRODUCE EXCESIVE RAINFALL MUCH OF AREA. BEST ISENTROPIC LIFT MOVES N OF AREA EARLY THU...BUT WITH CONVECTION AROUND...FLOOD THREAT CONTINUES. WILL EXPAND FLOOD WATCH TO ENTIRE AREA THROUGH THURSDAY. THREAT OF SEVERE CONTINUES THIS EVENING IN S AND W ALONG PERIPHERY OF WEDGE...WHERE INSTABILITY GREATEST...AND AGAIN THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT AS WEDGE ERRODES. FRONT STALLS JUST E OF AREA FRI AS WAVE FORMS TO S. PRECIPITATION EXPECTED TO EXPAND WESTWARD...BUT HOW FAR IS STILL IN QUESTION. WENT WITH CHANCE POPS FRI...HIGHEST E...WITH THUNDER EVERYWHERE AS BAND OF HIGH CAPES CROSS AREA. FRONT MOVES E AND AREA DRIES FRI NIGHT... WHILE WEAK SECONDARY FRONT APPROACHES MTS. SECOND FRONT REACHES MTS SAT...WITH LIMITED MOISTURE...CROSSING AREA SUN. WAVE ON THIS FRONT TO MOVE E ALONG I-20 MON...AND WILL CARRY POPS SUN NIGHT...DRYING FROM W MON. DRY RIDGE OVER AREA TUE/WED. FCSTID = 7 GSP 53 64 54 72 / 80 80 80 40 AND 55 68 53 72 / 80 80 80 40 CLT 54 63 56 73 / 90 90 80 40 HKY 49 61 53 71 / 80 80 70 40 AVL 48 63 50 69 / 80 80 70 30 .GSP... GA...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES GAZ010... GAZ017>018...GAZ026...GAZ028>029. FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES GAZ010...GAZ017>018... GAZ026...GAZ028>029. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES NCZ033>037... NCZ048>059...NCZ062>072...NCZ082. FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES NCZ051...NCZ058... NCZ062...NCZ066>067. SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES SCZ001>014... SCZ019. FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY FOR ZONES SCZ001>007... SCZ010>013...SCZ019. O7
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 19, 2:55 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-192145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 255 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT... POSSIBLY ACCOMPANIED BY TORNADOES ALONG THE BORDER OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THURSDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 2:50 PM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-200400- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 250 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS... CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE...AND MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND TORNADOES. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER IS ALONG THE BORDER OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE FARTHER NORTH INTO THE SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE...AND THE MOUNTAINS...THE THREAT FOR TORNADOES WILL DIMINISH...BUT THE THREAT OF DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL WILL REMAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENCOUNTER INCREASINGLY STABLE AIR ACROSS THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT THIS EVENING...AND SHOULD WEAKEN...DIMINISHING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. 07
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.