Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 9:24 PM EDT for Elbert County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
- Apr 25, 2003, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2003, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Elbert County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
082
WUUS52 KGSP 260124
SVRGSP
GAC105-260200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
923 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ELBERT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
* AT 922 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF ELBERTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF BOWMAN...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
DEWY ROSE AT 925 PM EDT.
ELBERTON AT 940 PM EDT.
RUCKERSVILLE AT 945 PM EDT.
MIDDLETON AT 950 PM EDT.
HAIL TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE
EXPECTED. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3423 8310 3413 8312 3403 8294 3398 8258
3430 8279 3422 8295
$$
BURRUS/LANEWhat 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 Apr 25, 3:07 PM EDT, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 25, 3:07 PM EDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 307 PM EDT FRI APR 25 2003 CONVECTION FIRING IN UNSTABLE AIR TO OUR WEST AHEAD OF UPPER LOW SPINNING TOWARD OUR AREA. JET MAX DIVING AROUND BASE OF THE LOW MOVES INTO THE AREA TONIGHT. THIS BRINGS AREA OF DEEP OMEGA AND UPPER DIV ACROSS THE CWFA. LAPSE RATES WILL INCREASE AS COLD POOL ALOFT MOVES OVER. LIMITING FACTOR WILL BE THE LOW TEMPS/DEW POINTS OVER US NOW. HOWEVER WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY COULD PROVIDE A FOCUS FOR DEVELOPMENT AS WELL. ALL THAT SAID...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. CONVECTION POSSIBLE EARLY SAT AS COLD FRONT SWINGS THRU. DRYING WORKS IN OVER THE SWRN SECTIONS ENDING PRECIP CHCS BY AFTERNOON. CHC LINGERS NORTH AND EAST AS UPPER LOW AND ITS ASSOCIATED DEFORMATION ZONE STILL TO MOVE THRU. DRY WX SUN THRU TUE WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE AREA. WARMING TREND WITH 70S OVER MOST OF THE CWFA...COULD EVEN REACH THE 80S BY THEN. BACKDOOR FRONT MOVES NEAR THE AREA WED...HOLDS ON THU THEN MOVES BACK NORTH FRI. VARYING CHANCES OF PRECIP WED THRU FRI AS DIFFERENT WAVES MOVE NEAR THE FRONT. TEMPS A LITTLE COOLER OR NEARLY STEADY. FCSTID = 81 GSP 56 74 53 77 / 90 30 10 0 AND 56 74 53 78 / 90 30 10 0 CLT 56 74 53 77 / 90 40 10 0 HKY 55 71 51 75 / 90 50 10 0 AVL 52 67 47 72 / 90 40 10 0 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RWH
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 25, 5:45 AM EDT, 15 hours 39 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-251145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 545 AM EDT FRI APR 25 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING ACROSS UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS OF NORTH CAROLINA. SOME HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE...THOUGH IT IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE WIDESPREAD. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SEE OUR SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK (CAESPSGSP). .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 77 SATURDAY MORNING...WITH THE ACTIVITY ENDING DURING THE AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY AND TONIGHT. MCAVOY
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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.