Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2003, 8:31 PM EDT for Greenwood County, Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 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, 8:31 PM EDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2003, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 3084 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
440 WUUS52 KGSP 110031 SVRGSP SCC047-059-110115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 830 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LAURENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA NORTHWESTERN GREENWOOD COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 830 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF GREENWOOD...OR ABOUT 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF CORONACA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WATERLOO AT 840 PM EDT. CROSS HILL AT 850 PM EDT. LAURENS AT 900 PM EDT. ORA AT 910 PM EDT. CLINTON AT 915 PM EDT. THIS SLOW MOVING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS...LOW AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3432 8229 3419 8213 3446 8176 3464 8195 $$ DICARLO
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 Jul 10, 5:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 5:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 551 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 AN UPDATE WILL BE FORTHCOMING SOON FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 718...INCORPORATING ALL OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS AND OUR NORTHERN FOOTHILLS. FCSTID = 44 GSP 69 88 66 88 / 70 50 30 20 AND 69 89 67 89 / 70 50 30 20 CLT 70 89 67 90 / 60 40 40 20 HKY 68 86 65 86 / 60 50 30 20 AVL 66 83 59 83 / 70 50 20 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. BURRUS
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 6:04 AM EDT, 14 hours 27 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, 2:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
NCZ071-082-SCZ008-009-013-014-101915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 245 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 AT 245 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN CHEROKEE COUNTY AND NORTHERN UNION COUNTY MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. NEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS YORK COUNTY. ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA. BOATERS ON LAKE WYLIE SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO AN AREA OF SAFETY. SEVERAL SMALL DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY... NEAR PINEVILLE... AT 245 PM. HOWEVER... MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING FROM THE SOUTHWEST WILL NOT ARRIVE IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY UNTIL AFTER 315 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA UNTIL 600 PM. LGL
Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before
NCZ070>072-082-SCZ009-014-101955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 325 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003 AT 325 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED IN AN ARC FROM NEAR KINGS MOUNTAINS SOUTHEAST TO ROCK HILL THEN SOUTH THROUGH RICHBURG IN CHESTER COUNTY. A WIND GUST TO 41 MPH WAS RECORDED AT THE ROCK HILL AIRPORT IN YORK COUNTY AT 311 PM. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT APPROXIMATELY 20 MPH. THEY WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CHARLOTTE METROPOLITAN AREA BEFORE 430 PM. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG AND GUSTY WIND... AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WILL OCCUR. LAKE WYLIE WILL EXPERIENCE THUNDERSTORM WEATHER. BOATERS AND SWIMMERS IN LAKE NORMAN SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS TRAVEL TOWARD THE NORTHEAST. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE VERY CLOSE TO THE SOUTHERN END OF LAKE NORMAN BY 400 PM. ANYONE OUTSIDE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT LIGHTNING ACCOMPANIES ALL THUNDERSTORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CHARLOTTE METRO AREA UNTIL 600 PM. LGL
Local storm report, Jul 10, 5:14 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
514 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
347 PM WAXHAW NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/03 UNION TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
DOT.
417 PM MARSHVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/10/03 UNION 2 TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
DOT.
MCAVOYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens | 39 min |
| Jul 11, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 44 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.