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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 8, 2003Rutherford County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2003, 2:57 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 8, 2003, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rutherford County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 614 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

916 
WUUS52 KGSP 081857
SVRGSP
NCC161-081945-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
257 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 257 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUTHERFORDTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF THERMAL CITY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  THERMAL CITY AT 300 PM EDT.
  SUNSHINE AT 325 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.

LAT...LON 3555 8201 3553 8185 3558 8170 3535 8170
          3538 8209 3552 8209

$$
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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 8, 2:02 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:02 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
202 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

SHORTWAVE ASSOCIATED WITH GREAT LAKES UPPER LOW TO MOVE BY TO N
TONIGHT. SURFACE FRONT STALLED NEAR AREA RIGHT NOW...WITH SECONDARY
FRONT MOVING THROUGH MS RIVER VALLEY. RADAR SHOWS CONVECTION
DEVELOPING MAINLY E OF I-85...THROUGH SECOND BAND DEVELOPING ALONG
BLUE RIDGE. WILL LEAVE SCATTERED CONVECTION IN FORECAST THIS
EVENING. STILL CONCERNED ABOUT FLOOD POTENTIAL IN CLT AREA THIS
EVENING...AND WILL ISSUE ANOTHER FLOOD WATCH. ATMOSPHERE DRIES AS
SECOND FRONT WEEPS ACROSS AREA LATE TONIGHT. GUIDANCE POPS VERY LOW
NEXT TWO DAYS...THOUGH AVN RETURNS MOISTURE FASTER ON TUE. FOR NOW
LEFT TUE DRY. NEXT COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM N WED. AVN MORE
AGRESSIVE IN BRINGING GULF MOISTURE N TO MEET FRONT. INCREASED POP
TO 30 WED AFTERNOON. DRIER AIR WILL ALLOW GREATER DIURNAL
TEMPERATURE RANGE...PARTICULARLY TUE WITH LOWER MININUM TEMPERATURES.

EXTENDED FORECAST FEATURES STALLED FRONT TO N...WITH OPEN GULF TO
W...AND AREA IN WARM SECTOR. BEST ACTIVITY MAY BE LIMITED TO N AND W
SECTIONS NEARES BEST DYNAMICS...OROGRAPHICS...AND MOISTURE SOURCE.
A LOT WILL DEPND ON WHERE EXACTLY FRONT STALLS. AT THIS TIME WILL
LEAVE 30 POPS THROUGHOUT EXTENDED...CONTINUING INTO SUN.
TEMPERATURES NEAR PERSISTENCE AND CLIMATOLOGY.

FCSTID =    7
GSP   64  87  63  87 /  30  10  10  10
AND   64  88  63  88 /  30  10  10  10
CLT   65  87  63  88 /  30  10  10  10
HKY   63  85  60  85 /  30  10  10  10
AVL   60  83  56  83 /  30  10  10  10

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS EVENING FOR ZONES NCZ069>072...NCZ082.

SC...FLOOD WATCH FOR THIS EVENING FOR ZONE SCZ009.

O7

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 7:10 AM EDT, 7 hours 47 minutes before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-081300-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
710 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN AFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE PIEDMONT OF THE
WESTERN CAROLINAS THIS MORNING. SEE CAEFFAGSP AND CAEFLSGSP FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY ACROSS THE
MOUNTAINS TODAY...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE DURING THE AFTERNOON.
THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING ISOLATED HEAVY RAINFALL...
AS WELL AS GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. HOWEVER...THESE
STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LEVELS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

LANE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 8:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Mecklenburg	3 hr
Jun 7, 11:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Cabarrus	3 hr
Jun 8, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	23 min
Jun 8, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe, Henderson	43 min
Jun 8, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Avery, Mitchell	53 min
Jun 8, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Buncombe	43 min
Jun 8, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	McDowell	44 min
Jun 8, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Burke, McDowell, Rutherford	64 min
Jun 8, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Alexander	55 min
Jun 8, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2003 Every 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.