Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2003, 6:09 PM EDT for Davie County, North Carolina. It was in force for 66 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 27, 2003, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Davie County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 27, 2:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 27, 2:36 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 236 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2003 UPPER LOW TO N PERSISTS TROUGH WED...THEN MOVES OFFSHORE THU. EXPECT SOME RESIDUAL CONVECTION TO LINGER INTO THE EVENING... ESPECIALLY E PORTION. DRYING IN WAKE OF SHORTWAVE TONIGHT...COMBINED WITH LACK OF AN UPPER LEVEL FEATURE...WILL KEEP WED DRY. BY THU ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DROPS SE AROUND BASE OF EXITING UPPER LOW...AND VORT LOBE BECOMES LESS CHANNELED. MOISTURE RATHER LIMITED WITH THIS FEATURE...AND WILL LIMIT POPS TO CHANCE. WEAK FROPA LATE THU WITH NW FLOW FOLLOWING. CARRIED A FEW SHOWERS N NC MOUNTAINS BEHIND FRONT THU NIGHT. AREA DRY FRI IN W FLOW. MAIN CHANGE TO PREVIOUS EXTENDED PACKAGE WAS TO SPEED UP WEEKEND FRONT. GULF CLOSED..SO NOT MUCH MOISTURE. EXPECT CHANCE CONVECTION WITH FRONT BEGINNING SAT IN MOUNTAINS...AND ACROSS AREA SAT NIGHT. LATEST GFS RUN WOULD DRY AREA OUT COMLETELY BY SUN MORNING. MON AND TUE DRY AS SURFACE RIDGE CROSSES AREA. FCSTID = 7 GSP 55 79 57 79 / 20 10 30 30 AND 55 80 58 79 / 20 10 30 30 CLT 55 80 58 79 / 20 10 20 30 HKY 54 78 56 77 / 20 10 30 30 AVL 50 75 53 74 / 20 10 40 40 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. O7
Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 5:45 AM EDT, 12 hours 24 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-271200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 545 AM EDT TUE MAY 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED TO ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. NED
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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.