Alert archive / Georgia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 337, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2003, 3:55 PM EDT for Franklin County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 65 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
- Aug 6, 2003, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Franklin County, GA, Hart County, GA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 332 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
478
WUUS52 KGSP 061955
SVRGSP
GAC119-147-062100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
353 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
HART COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
* UNTIL 500 PM EDT
* AT 353 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF CARNESVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
LAVONIA AT 355 PM EDT.
BOWERSVILLE AT 400 PM EDT.
REED CREEK AT 420 PM EDT.
HARTWELL AT 425 PM EDT.
NUBERG AT 435 PM EDT.
SEVERAL LARGE TREES WERE KNOCKED DOWN IN FRANKLIN COUNTY WITH THIS
STORM.
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 3451 8321 3433 8325 3423 8295 3430 8279
3447 8288
$$
BM/RNWhat 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 Aug 6, 2:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 2:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 233 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2003 ANOMALOUS UPPER LEVEL LONGWAVE TROUGH TO REMAIN OVER EASTERN USA THROUGH EARLY PART OF PACKAGE...WITH RIDGE TO W. CONVECTION IN N AL THIS AFTERNOON TRACKING E TOWARD GA/SC...AND WILL KEEP LIKELY EVENING POPS THOSE AREAS...WITH CHANCE NC. CONCERNED ABOUT SEVERE POTENTIAL S PORTION...AND FLOOD POTENTIAL ENTIRE AREA. WILL LEAVE CHANCE POPS WELL AFTER MIDNIGHT...AS CONVECTION HAS BEEN SLOW TO DIE OFF. DENSE FOG WAS OBSERVED ACROSS MUCH OF AREA EARLY THIS MORNING...AND WILL INCLUDE AGAIN THU. IMPULSE ROUNDING BASE OF TROUGH THU MORE IMPRESSIVE THAN TODAY...AND WILL CARRY LIKELY POP ENTIRE AREA. WITH UPPER ENERGY STILL UPSTREAM THU NIGHT...LOW CHANCE POP WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. ANOTHER VIGOROUS VORT LOBE APPROACHES AREA FRI...TAKING UNTIL LATE NIGHT TO MOVE THROUGH. CARRIED SLIGHTLY LOWER POP WITH THIS FEATURE AS IT IS A BIT WEAKER THAN THURSDAY IMPULSE. YET ANOTHER VORT LOBE APPROACHES SAT INTO SAT NIGHT. THOUGH MORE IMPRESSIVE THAN FRIDAY VORT...WILL KEEP POP ABOUT LIKE FRI...AS CONFIDENCE DECREASES ON STRENGTH/TIMING. TEMPERATURES NEAR PERSISTENCE WITH NO CHANGE IN AIR MASS. EXTENDED FORECAST STARTS MUCH AS EARLY PACKAGE ENDS. BY MON GFS HAS STRONG SHORTWAVE DIGGING INTO BASE OF TROUGH...CLOSING OF LOW IN S MS RIVER VALLEY. IF THIS SCENARIO UNFOLDS...W ATLANTIC RIDGE COULD RETROGRADE OVER AREA...WARMING/DRYING AREA. CURRENT NCEP SOLUTION MAINTAINS WEAK BOUNDARY OVER AREA ON E SIDE OF UPPER TROUGH THROUGH TUE...LEADING TO MORE PERSISTENCE IN FORECAST. BY WED BOUNDARY OUT OF AREA AND WEAKENING...AND WILL CARRY SLIGHT CHANCE POP. FCSTID = 7 GSP 69 85 68 85 / 60 60 60 40 AND 70 85 69 85 / 60 60 60 40 CLT 69 85 68 85 / 50 60 60 40 HKY 67 83 66 83 / 50 60 60 30 AVL 64 81 63 81 / 50 60 60 30 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. O7
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 5:08 AM EDT, 10 hours 47 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-061100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 508 AM EDT WED AUG 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY OVER THE FORECAST AREA. ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN ADDITION...SLOW STORM MOTIONS WILL ALLOW FOR HIGH RAINFALL RATES. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK (CAESPSGSP) FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLOODING THREAT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LINGER OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. WITH THE GROUND NEARLY SATURATED...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL QUICKLY RUNOFF INTO NEARBY STREAMS AND CREEKS. IF THESE HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP THROUGHOUT THE WEEK AS EXPECTED...FLOODING MAY RESULT. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST FLOOD POTENTIAL OUTLOOK (ESFGSP) FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NED
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 3:15 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-070300- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 315 PM EDT WED AUG 6 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND LOCAL FLASH FLOODING POSSIBLE AGAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE WESTERN CAROLINAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE THE GREATEST COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS. ANY OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 60 TO 70 MPH...AND RAINFALL RATES OF SEVERAL INCHES PER HOUR. SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO ACTIVATE QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. DISPATCHERS SHOULD ENSURE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE AWARE OF THIS INFORMATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS POTENTIAL SEVERE WEATHER SITUATION. 07
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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.