Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2003, 1:28 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 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 16, 2003, 1:28 PM EDT (17:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2003, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1026 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
692 WUUS52 KGSP 161728 SVRGSP SCC073-161830- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 127 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 127 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF TOCCOA...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF LONG CREEK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WESTMINSTER AT 155 PM EDT. WALHALLA AT 200 PM EDT. OAKWAY AT 205 PM EDT. SENECA AT 220 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 3483 8328 3468 8334 3454 8294 3492 8291 $$ RBN/HG
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 16, 9:26 AM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 9:26 AM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 926 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 MORNING UPDATE WILL BRING TEMPERATURES UP SLIGHTLY IN THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS OF CWA. VERY WEAK BOUNDARY JUST NORTH OF US SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ELEMENT DIFFERENTIATING WHERE THE WORST AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. SO LOOKING AT NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES TO HAVE THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS. SOUNDINGS ARE VERY WET. WITH TRIGGER TEMPS IN THE LOW 80S WE EXPECT TSTMS TO START DEVELOPMENT AROUNT 2:00 PM. IN WESTERN COUNTIES AND A LITTLE LATER IN EASTERN COUNTIES WHERE CLOUD COVER WILL BE SLOWER TO BURN OFF. UPDATING FLASH FLOOD WATCH AT 10:00 AM BUT DONT EXPECT ANY MAJOR CHANGES FOR NOW. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ033>037... NCZ048>050...NCZ053>057...NCZ065>072...NCZ082. SC...NONE. DICARLO
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 6:22 AM EDT, 7 hours 6 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 622 AM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT AS IT MOVES SOUTH ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. ALONG AND A LITTLE BEHIND THE FRONT...THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL TEND TO REFORM OVER THE SAME AREAS. THIS WILL RESULT IN LOCALIZED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. ON TUESDAY THE THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE HEAVY RAIN...WITH A BETTER CHANCE OF DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ON WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER AS WELL AS TO MONITOR STREAM LEVELS AND REPORT RAINFALL TOTALS. MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 46 min |
| Jun 16, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 12 min |
Nearby
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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.