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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 12, 2003Cleveland County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 12, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT for Cleveland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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 12, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Jul 12, 2003, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cleveland County, NC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2003-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 293 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2003-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 130030
TORGSP
NCC045-130115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
829 PM EDT SAT JUL 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLEVELAND COUNTY IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT.

* AT 829 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  SHELBY...OR ABOUT OVER KINGSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LAWNDALE AT 830 PM.
  FALLSTON AT 835 PM.
  SHELBY AT 840 PM.
  PATTERSON SPRINGS AT 850 PM.
  WACO AT 855 PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY
FROM DOORS AND WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3520 8144 3531 8172 3539 8170 3549 8164
          3545 8148 3529 8132 3514 8130

$$

WAJ/JRL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 12, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPRutherford39 min
Jul 12, 8:48 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGaston42 min
Jul 12, 9:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPMcDowell2 hr
Jul 12, 9:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston46 min
Jul 12, 9:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMcDowell, Rutherford65 min
Jul 12, 10:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg58 min
Jul 12, 10:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPLincoln59 min
Jul 12, 10:27 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPRutherford3 hr
Jul 12, 10:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPCleveland48 min
Jul 12, 11:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPCleveland, Lincoln3 hr
Jul 12, 11:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGaston40 min
Jul 12, 11:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg40 min
Jul 13, 12:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke44 min
Jul 13, 1:35 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPUnion3 hr
Jul 13, 1:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPUnion3 hr
Jul 13, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPBurke, Caldwell47 min
Jul 13, 4:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPUnion3 hr
Jul 13, 5:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBurke3 hr
Jul 13, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPMecklenburg, Union56 min
Jul 13, 5:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPBuncombe3 hr
Jul 13, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPGraham48 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.