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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

July 13, 2003Anderson County, Pickens County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2003, 3:20 PM EDT for Anderson County, Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 13, 2003, 3:20 PM EDT (19:20 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2003, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Anderson County, SC, Pickens County, SC

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 1654 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 744 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 131920
TORGSP
SCC007-077-132000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
318 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ANDERSON COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA   
  SOUTHERN PICKENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT.

* AT 318 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF PICKENS...
  OR ABOUT OVER LIBERTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF 
BASEBALLS. TAKE SHELTER NOW

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  EASLEY AT 325 PM EDT.
  POWDERSVILLE AT 340 PM EDT.
  PELZER AT 355 PM EDT.

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 3487 8268 3470 8275 3461 8245 3481 8247

$$
MCAVOY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville, Spartanburg	59 min
Jul 13, 12:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	39 min
Jul 13, 1:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	66 min
Jul 13, 2:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenwood	47 min
Jul 13, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Pickens	52 min
Jul 13, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	40 min
Jul 13, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Anderson	45 min
Jul 13, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Greenville	44 min
Jul 13, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	62 min
Jul 13, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	York	47 min
Jul 13, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester	52 min
Jul 13, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Abbeville, Greenwood	59 min
Jul 13, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Laurens	41 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.