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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 363, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

August 17, 2003Abbeville County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2003, 8:46 PM EDT for Abbeville 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 17, 2003, 8:46 PM EDT (00:46 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2003, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Abbeville County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 17, 8:05 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 8:05 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
805 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

UPDATE FORTHCOMING TO REMOVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HEADLINE FROM
ALL REMAINING ZONE GROUPINGS. WE WILL UPDATE ZONES ONE MORE TIME
AFTER UPPER AIR ANALYSIS HAS BEEN COMPLETED (WHICH WILL NOT BE UNTIL
STORMS EXIT THE INTERSTATE 77 CORRIDOR).

FCSTID =   44
GSP   70  89  68  88 /  60  30  30  20
AND   70  90  69  89 /  60  30  30  20
CLT   70  89  69  88 /  60  30  30  20
HKY   69  88  67  87 /  60  30  30  20
AVL   64  85  64  83 /  60  30  30  20

.GSP...
GA...NONE.
NC...NONE.
SC...NONE.

BURRUS

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 5:45 AM EDT, 15 hours 1 minute before

GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014-
019-171145-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
545 AM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SLOWLY TOWARD THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND
NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ACCOMPANY
THIS FRONT INTO THE AREA. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULE PRODUCE SEVERE
WEATHER AND LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. PLEASE SEE THE SEVERE WEATHER
OUTLOOK...CAESPSGSP FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ON MONDAY. A
FEW SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK IS
EXPECTED TO BE DRIER...WITH NO MORE THAN ISOLATED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.

LANE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 17, 5:08 PM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
508 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

450 PM     BELWOOD                   NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
08/17/03   CLEVELAND                      SPOTTER REPORTED GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE HAIL AND 40 MPH WIND
                                          GUST.

LAMB

Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
600 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

530 PM     GROVER                    NC   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/03   CLEVELAND                      COUNTY 911 REPORTED A
                                          TREE DOWN ON A HOUSE.
                                          ALSO WATERSON RD FLOODED.
                                          EVENT TIME ESTIMATED.

545 PM     2 N BLACKSBURG            SC   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/03   CHEROKEE                       911 CENTER REPORTED TREES
                                          DOWN.

LAMB

Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
606 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

550 PM     CORNELIA                  GA   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/03   HABERSHAM                      TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN
                                          PART OF THE COUNTY.
                                          REPORTED BY COUNTY COMMS
                                          CENTER.

MCAVOY

Local storm report, Aug 17, 6:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
634 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

605 PM     GAFFNEY                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
08/17/03   CHEROKEE                       COUNTY 911 REPORTED
                                          WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF A
                                          BUILDING. ALSO CARS
                                          FLOODED IN A PARKING LOT.

630 PM     2 S ROCKWELL              NC   FLASH FLOOD
08/17/03   ROWAN                          SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          TRIBUTARY OF JENNIE WOLF
                                          CREEK OUT OF BANKS ONTO
                                          SHUPING MILL RD AT
                                          ROWAN-CABARRUS COUNTY
                                          LINE. ROAD IS IMPASSABLE.
                                          SEVERAL OTHER ROADS IN
                                          SOUTHERN ROWAN ARE
                                          COVERED IN WATER.

LAMB

Local storm report, Aug 17, 8:37 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
837 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

824 PM     3 S MOCKSVILLE            NC   60 MPH TSTM GUST
08/17/03   DAVIE                          60 MPH WINDS ESTIMATED BY
                                          TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER.

BURRUS

Local storm report, Aug 17, 8:38 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE SPARTANBURG SC
838 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 2003

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

824 PM     3 S MOCKSVILLE            NC   .75 INCH HAIL
08/17/03   DAVIE                          SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
                                          DIME-SIZED HAIL SOUTH OF
                                          MOCKSVILLE.

BURRUS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 17, 8:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	56 min
Aug 17, 9:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GSP	Anderson	2 hr
Aug 17, 9:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	60 min

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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.