Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2003, 5:48 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 12 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, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:51 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 1240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 162148 SVRGSP SCC059-162200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 549 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LAURENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 549 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAURENS...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOANNA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... JOANNA AT 550 PM EDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS CAN REACH SPEEDS OF 60 TO 100 MPH. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES AND SOMETIMES BUILDINGS. VERY LARGE OR WIND-DRIVEN HAIL CAN INJURE ANYONE CAUGHT OUTSIDE. LAT...LON 3448 8192 3432 8197 3422 8194 3445 8173 $$ RBN
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, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 320 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003 SURFACE FRONT HAS PUSHED INTO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. LOW CLOUDS HAVE BEEN VERY SLOW TO ERODE IN THE NC PIEDMONT TODAY...KEEPING THE AREA MORE STABLE THAN SC/GA AND THE WRN MOUNTAINS. CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED IN THE MORE UNSTABLE AREAS AND THIS SHOULD STEADILY SPREAD EASTWARD ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING...WITH THE STALLING SFC BOUNDARY REMAINING A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION OVERNIGHT. PER COORDINATION WITH ADJACENT OFFICES...WILL MAINTAIN THE EXISTING FLOOD WATCH FOR MUCH OF NORTH CAROLINA TONIGHT. WILL LEAVE IT TO THE MID SHIFT TO ASSESS THE NEED FOR EXTENSION INTO TUESDAY. ISOLATED FLOODING PROBLEMS COULD DEVELOP OUTSIDE THE WATCH AREA FARTHER SW...BUT DEGREE OF TRAINING AWAY FROM THE SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL BE VERY HARD TO ASSESS AND IS PROBABLY NOT WORTH A WATCH AT PRESENT. SFC BOUNDARY IS FORECAST TO REMAIN OVER THE NE THIRD OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH TOMORROW WITH THE MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT THAT THE BOUNDARY SLOWLY LIFTS BACK NORTH THROUGH WEDNESDAY. WILL GENERALLY GO SLIGHTLY LOWER THAN GUIDANCE ON MAXES AND KEEP A SMALL DIURNAL TEMP RANGE. DEEPER MOISTURE SHOWS UP IN TIME HEIGHTS AGAIN WED WITH DEEP SW FLOW BUT LESS TRIGGERING AROUND. WILL OPT FOR SOLID CHC POPS WED AFTN. STRONG COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST ON THU WITH HIGHEST EXTENDED RANGE POPS FEATURED FOR THU NIGHT. MODEL DISCREPANCIES THEN BEGIN TO SHOW UP. THE GFS HAS BEEN FAIRLY CONSISTENT THE PAST THREE RUNS WITH HANGING UP THE FRONT ACROSS THE SRN EDGE OF AREA WITH RETURN FLOW MOISTURE BY SAT. GFS ALSO FEATURES TROUGH AXIS TO THE WEST OVER THE MS VALLEY. WILL LEAN TOWARD ECM SOLUTION OF PLAINS RIDGING AND MUCH LATER RETURN OF A WEAKER FRONT FOR LATE WEEKEND AND RETURN TO DIURNAL AFTN CONVECTION. FCSTID = 33 GSP 69 82 69 82 / 70 60 60 50 AND 69 84 69 83 / 60 60 60 50 CLT 69 81 69 82 / 70 70 70 50 HKY 67 77 67 79 / 80 70 70 50 AVL 65 77 64 78 / 70 70 70 50 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES NCZ033>037...NCZ048>050... NCZ053>057...NCZ065>072...NCZ082. SC...NONE. HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 6:22 AM EDT, 11 hours 26 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, 3 hours 44 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
Local storm report, Jun 16, 5:10 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
510 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
455 PM 2 NE ST STEPHENS NC FLASH FLOOD
06/16/03 CATAWBA COUNTY EOC REPORTED WATER
COVERING SPRINGS ROAD AND
SAINT PETERS CHURCH ROAD
IMPEDING TRAFFIC.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jun 16, 5:23 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
523 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
515 PM 5 W STATESVILLE NC FLASH FLOOD
06/16/03 IREDELL COUNTY COMMS REPORTED
FLOODING ON HIGHWAYS 70
AND 90... AND ON BRISTOL
ROAD IN THE WESTERN PART
OF THE COUNTY... IMPEDING
TRAFFIC.
508 PM 3 NNE ST STEPHENS NC WIND DAMAGE
06/16/03 CATAWBA COUNTY COMMS REPORTED
MULTIPLE TREES DOWN AND
PROPERTY DAMAGE NEAR LAKE
HICKORY.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jun 16, 5:42 PM EDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
542 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
455 PM 2 E BETHLEHEM NC WIND DAMAGE
06/16/03 ALEXANDER SHINGLES OFF
ROOFS...TREES AND
PWERLINES DOWN...REPORTED
BY EMERGENCY MANAGER.
RBThe 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, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 46 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.