Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 12:43 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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 27, 2003, 12:43 PM EDT (16:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 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), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
480 WUUS52 KGSP 271643 SVRGSP NCC161-271730- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1242 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 1242 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF RUTHERFORDTON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF SUNSHINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SUNSHINE AT 1250 PM EDT. FOREST CITY AT 1250 PM EDT. ELLENBORO AT 115 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 3553 8182 3538 8196 3524 8173 3549 8169 $$ MCAVOY
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 27, 11:08 AM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 11:08 AM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1108 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 WL UP POPS TO LIKELY IN THE MTNS THIS AFTN. WEAK FRONTAL BAND IS MOVING INTO THE HIGHER TERRAIN FROM OUT OF ERN TN. WHILE NOTHING TOO IMPRESSIVE...PCPN IS HOLDING TOGETHER. THERE IS ALREADY A GOOD COVERAGE OF SHOWERS OVER THE CENTRAL AND NRN NC MTNS...AND SUSPECT THAT MORE SHRA WL DEVELOP IN THIS MOIST AXIS AS THE AFTN WEARS ON. WL KEEP POPS IN THE CHANCE CAT FARTHER EAST THIS AFTN. GSO SOUNDING...MODIFIED FOR A MAX TEMP OF 87 AND DWPT OF 67 YIELDS SBCAPE OF 2200 J/KG AND FAIRLY STEEP LLVL LAPSE RATES. HOWEVER...OPAQUE CLOD COVER...HELPED BY FORCING INT EH ENTRANCE REGION OF THE H2-H3 JET WL KEEP TEMPS DOWN TDA. LLVL CONVERGENCE WL BECOME STRONGER E OF THE MTNS...BUT ETA DOES NOT PROG THIS TO HAPPEN UNTIL AFT 00 UTC. USUALLY COLD POOL GENERATION IN THE FOOTHILLS RESULTS IN MCS DEVELOPMENT IN THE LEE IN THE AFTN W/THIS SORT OF FROPA. THINK CLOUDS WL KEEP THAT FROM HAPPENING...AS WILL THE VERY WEAK MID LEVEL FLOW. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. MCAVOY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 6:25 AM EDT, 6 hours 18 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-271215- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 625 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY AND STALL...FINALLY EXITING THE REGION SUNDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TODAY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG...CONTAINING WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH OR SOME SMALL HAIL. THEY COULD ALSO BE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCERS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY...WITH THE HIGHEST CHANCES OF RAIN ON SATURDAY. SOME OF THE STORMS SATURDAY COULD BECOME SEVERE. AFTER THE COLD FRONT LEAVES THE AREA...A SUMMERTIME PATTERN OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED FOR MOST OF NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY. BURRUS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 42 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.