Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 353, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 4:14 PM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2003, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Anderson County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 801 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 16, 1:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 1:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 145 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 UPPER TROF APPROACHING FROM THE NW WILL MOVE THRU BY LATE THIS EVE AND CONVECTION WILL MOVE E WITH IT. WITH WEAK RIDGE BUILDING OVERNIGHT EXPECT PATCHY FOG EARLY SUN MORNING. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROF FCST TO MOVE THRU THE AREA TOMORROW. EXPECT STRONGEST PVA/BEST LIFT IN THE AFTN-EARLY EVE PERIODS. ON MON AFTN GFS SHOWS ANOTHER SHRTWV APPROACHING AND ALTHOUGH DEEPER MOISTURE MOVES SE...WILL HOLD ON TO AT LEAST SLIGHT CHANCE POPS. SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS OVER AREA TUE-FRI AND HAVE SLIGHT CHANCE LATE DAY POPS IN THE GRIDS. A SFC BOUNDARY IS PROGGED TO MOVE IN SAT...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF CONVECTION TO THE AREA. FCSTID = 77 GSP 71 88 69 88 / 40 40 40 20 AND 71 88 70 89 / 40 40 40 20 CLT 71 88 69 88 / 40 40 40 20 HKY 69 87 68 87 / 40 40 40 20 AVL 65 84 64 84 / 40 40 40 20 .GSP... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. RB
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 16, 6:10 AM EDT, 10 hours 4 minutes before
GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 610 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND EVENING. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS FOR A BRIEF TIME. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY THAT A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE ENOUGH RAIN TO CAUSE FLOODING OF URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IN LOCATIONS THAT HAVE RECEIVED EXCESSIVE RAIN IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... ANOTHER ROUND OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED SUNDAY AND SUNDAY EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHTLY BETTER CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER LATE IN THE DAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED ON SUNDAY. MOORE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 16, 1:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
133 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
900 AM 5-10 SE SALISBURY NC FLASH FLOOD
08/16/03 ROWAN SPOTTER REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS
AROUND GRANITE QUARRY AND
ROCKWELL RESULTED IN
FLOODED ROADS...HOUSES...
APARTMENTS...AND CARS.
UNTIL 11 AM...BUT SOME
ROADS STILL FLOODED AFTER
NOON.
JONESLocal storm report, Aug 16, 2:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
209 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
145 PM 2 W PAULINE SC .75 INCH HAIL
08/16/03 SPARTANBURG PUBLIC/SPOTTER REPORT.
ALSO LOTS OF LIGHTNING.
JONESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 9:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Rowan | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Union | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 44 min |
| Aug 16, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 47 min |
| Aug 16, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 39 min |
| Aug 16, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 5:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Anderson, Greenwood | 3 hr |
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.