Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2003, 8:01 PM EDT for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 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 11, 2003, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1364 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
421
WUUS52 KGSP 120001
SVRGSP
SCC083-120100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
800 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT
* AT 758 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPARTANBURG...OR ABOUT OVER
ROEBUCK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
PAULINE AT 815 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 3486 8211 3500 8195 3487 8174 3483 8177
3476 8178 3463 8183
$$
44/33What 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 11, 1:50 PM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 1:50 PM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 150 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003 WILL UPDATE TO INCLUDE NEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR UPSTATE SC AND NE GA THROUGH 8 PM EDT. FCSTID = 33 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. HG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 5:11 AM EDT, 14 hours 50 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-111100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 511 AM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION TODAY...BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER...ESPECIALLY IN THE PIEDMONT AND FOOTHILLS. PLEASE SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CAESPSGSP...FOR MORE INFORMATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SCATTERED...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE DURING MUCH OF THE NEXT 7 DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. LANE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 11, 5:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
513 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
505 PM HUNTERSVILLE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 MECKLENBURG TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN IN HUNTERSVILLE.
COUNTY 911 REPORT.
BURRUSLocal storm report, Jul 11, 5:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
537 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
510 PM CONCORD NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 CABARRUS TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN IN CONCORD...AS WELL
AS ACROSS THE REST OF THE
COUNTY. POWER OUT TO MOST
OF CONCORD. REPORTED BY
COUNTY COMMS CENTER.
MCAVOYLocal storm report, Jul 11, 5:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
542 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
515 PM 2 S CHARLOTTE NC FLASH FLOOD
07/11/03 MECKLENBURG HAM SPOTTER REPORTED
BRIDGE FLOODED AT NATIONS
FORD AND I-77.
530 PM KANNAPOLIS NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 ROWAN TREE FELL ON MOBILE HOME
ON BRANTLEY RD. ODELL
F.D. ON SCENE. REPORTED
BY HAM SPOTTER.
517 PM ROCKWELL NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 ROWAN ROWAN EOC REPORTED TREES
DOWN IN ROCKWELL...10 S
OF SALISBURY.
528 PM GRANITE QUARRY NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 ROWAN ROWAN EOC REPORTED TREES
DOWN IN GRANITE
QUARRY...5 S OF
SALISBURY.
LAMBLocal storm report, Jul 11, 6:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
630 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
527 PM 11 E CHARLOTTE NC WIND DAMAGE
07/11/03 MECKLENBURG TREES DOWN IN MINT HILL.
REPORT FROM COUNTY 911
CENTER.
BURRUSLocal storm report, Jul 11, 7:15 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
715 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
710 PM STALLINGS NC URBAN FLOODING
07/11/03 UNION SPOTTER REPORTED NUMEROUS
ROADS FLOODED IN WESTERN
UNION COUNTY. FAITH
CHURCH RD...ROCKY RIVER
RD. IMPEDING MOST
TRAFFIC.
LAMBSpecial weather statement, Jul 11, 7:18 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
GAZ018-026-028-SCZ004>008-010-012-013-120100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 718 PM EDT FRI JUL 11 2003 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO AFFECT UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA THROUGH 9 PM... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS WILL AFFECT THE MAJOR CITIES OF UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA THROUGH 9 PM. THESE STORMS WILL BRING FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY GUSTY WINDS AND BETWEEN ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN TO GREENVILLE AND THE GOLDEN STRIP...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY... AND TO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ANDERSON COUNTY THROUGH 9 PM. THE STORMS WILL PASS AS FAR SOUTH AS UNION AND LAURENS COUNTIES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET... FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. 44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 53 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.