Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2003, 2:44 PM EDT for Abbeville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2003, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 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), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.
360 WUUS52 KGSP 161844 SVRGSP SCC001-161930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 244 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ABBEVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 244 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF ELBERTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOWNDESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LOWNDESVILLE AT 250 PM EDT. ANTREVILLE AT 310 PM EDT. ABBEVILLE AT 320 PM EDT. DUE WEST 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 3425 8275 3406 8261 3412 8227 3441 8235 $$ 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, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 9:26 AM EDT, 5 hours 18 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, 8 hours 22 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:04 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
NCZ053-065-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 204 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES SIGNIFICANT THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS BUNCOMBE AND HENDERSON COUNTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA. BUNCOMBE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT HAS REPORTED MARBLE SIZED HAIL WITH THE STORMS IN THE AREA. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. DICARLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 62 min |
| Jun 16, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 12 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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.