Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2003, 2:13 PM EDT for Rutherford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 10, 2003, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2003, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 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), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 11:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KGSP 101813
SVRGSP
NCC161-101915-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
212 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
RUTHERFORD COUNTY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 315 PM EDT
* AT 212 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF RUTHERFORDTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RUTHERFORDTON AT 220 PM EDT.
SPINDALE AT 225 PM EDT.
FOREST CITY AT 230 PM EDT.
SUNSHINE AT 235 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 3544 8219 3531 8203 3525 8177 3548 8171
3553 8184
$$
LGL/HGWhat 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 Jul 10, 11:53 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 11:53 AM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1153 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 ISSUED UPDATE FOR SVR TSTM WATCH AND ENHANCED WORDING. FCSTID = 33 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 6:04 AM EDT, 8 hours 9 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-101200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 604 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY...WITH A FEW POSSIBLY BECOMING SEVERE AND SOME PRODUCING LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...REFER TO THE LATEST SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...SPSGSP... ISSUED BY THIS OFFICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON FRIDAY...WITH DAILY CHANCES RETURNING AGAIN SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 12:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SCZ006-011-012-019-101720- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 1236 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN SOUTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. AT 1230 PM EDT THE STORMS WERE IN ANDERSON AND ABBEVILLE COUNTIES...STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST AT 25 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THESE STORM MAY PRODUCE WINDS OF MORE THAN 50 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE UPSTATE SHOULD MONITOR THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. DICARLO
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:23 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
SCZ007-008-012-013-019-101815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 123 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH SPARTANBURG...LAURENS AND GREENWOOD COUNTIES BY 200 PM. THE STORMS WILL THEN MOVE THROUGH CHEROKEE AND UNION COUNTIES BY 230 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND THESE STORM MAY PRODUCE WINDS OF MORE THAN 50 MPH AND PENNY SIZE HAIL OR LARGER. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY REPORTS OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE UPSTATE SHOULD MONITOR THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. DICARLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 51 min |
| Jul 10, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Graham, Swain | 47 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.