Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 5:18 PM EDT for Polk County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Polk County, NC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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.
422
WUUS52 KGSP 272118
SVRGSP
NCC149-272200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
517 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN POLK COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 517 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF MILL SPRING...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN IN RURAL AREAS OF
EASTERN POLK COUNTY
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 3520 8220 3521 8219 3534 8218 3534 8209
3520 8197 3520 8220
$$
MCAVOYWhat 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, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 325 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 NOT MUCH IS LEFT OF THE FRONTAL BAND THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS EAST TENNESSEE...AS MOST OF THE STRONGER ACTIVITY HAS BEEN CONCENTRATED IN THE MORE UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS THE DEEP SOUTH. MEANWHILE... ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED AHEAD OF THE BOUNDARY IN AN AIRMASS CHARACTERIZED BY CAPES OF AROUND 2000 J/KG. CONSIDERING THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS...AND CONTINUED CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FRONT...WILL MAINTAIN A SOLID CHANCE POP ACROSS THE ENTIRE CWFA. ALTHOUGH THE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE SOMEWHAT DIURNALLY DRIVEN...MODEL GUIDANCE...ESP THE ETA...INDICATE INCREASING OMEGA LATE TONIGHT INTO TOMORROW UNDERNEATH THE RRQ OF A 70KT H2 JETLET. FOR TOMORROW...DEEP LAYER MOISTURE BECOMES FAIRLY ABUNDANT ACROSS THE REGION...ALTHOUGH FORCING/LIFT MECHANISMS WILL BE WEAK AND SUBTLE. NEVERTHELESS...WITH THE ABUNDANT MOISTURE AVAILABLE...WILL INCREASE POPS TO AROUND 50 PERCENT IN MOST AREAS. DRIER MID/UPPER AIR WORKS ITS WAY INTO THE REGION...WHILE THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY CONTINUES TO WASH OUT IN OR NEAR THE AREA. HOWEVER...THE AREA WILL REMAIN ON THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE WESTERLIES DURING THIS TIME...SO LEE TROUGHING COULD ACT AS A FOCUS FOR SCATTERED AFTERNOON/EVENING CONVECTION. THE GFS REMAINS FAIRLY CONSISTENT IN DEVELOPING AN APPARENT TROPICAL SYSTEM ACROSS THE GULF SATURDAY...AND LIFTING IT RAPIDLY NORTH TOWARD THE WESTERN CAROLINAS LATE SUNDAY. PER TPC AND HPC GUIDANCE...TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT APPEARS UNLIKELY AT THIS TIME... SO WILL STAY THE COURSE WITH MAINLY DIURNAL TYPE CONVECTION THROUGH MONDAY. THIS TYPE OF PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST WEDNESDAY. .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. LANE
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 6:25 AM EDT, 10 hours 53 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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
GAZ018-026-028-029-NCZ034>037-054>057-066>072-082-SCZ004>014-019- 272245- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 105 PM EDT FRI JUN 27 2003 ...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE FOOTHILLS AND PIEDMONT OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AS OF THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS FRIDAY...A COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS...ALONG A LINE FROM HICKORY TO RUTHERFORDTON AND SOUTHWEST TO WALHALLA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALREADY DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT IN THE NORTH CAROLINA FOOTHILLS. AS THESE STORMS MOVE EAST...INTO MORE UNSTABLE AIR...A FEW OF THEM COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS ONE THAT PRODUCES WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER...HAIL THE SIZE OF PENNIES OR LARGER OR ANY DAMAGE. THE AREA WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF SEEING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT. THIS INCLUDES THE INTERSTATE 77 CORRIDOR AND THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COULD OCCUR JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 47 min |
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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.