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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 19, 2003Spartanburg County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 19, 2003, 6:03 AM EST for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 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: Nov 19, 2003, 6:03 AM EST (11:03 UTC)
Expired: Nov 19, 2003, 6:30 AM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Spartanburg County, SC

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 19, 2:20 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 191103
TORGSP
SCC083-191130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
602 AM EST WED NOV 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 630 AM EST.

* AT 602 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SPARTANBURG...OR ABOUT 2 MILES WEST OF ROEBUCK...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ROEBUCK AT 605 AM EST.
  SPARTANBURG AT 610 AM EST.
  PACOLET MILLS AT 620 AM EST.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

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 3490 8172 3490 8171 3491 8171 3492 8172
          3493 8172 3495 8175 3496 8175 3498 8177
          3499 8177 3500 8178 3501 8178 3502 8179
          3503 8179 3504 8180 3505 8180 3506 8181
          3507 8181

$$
JONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 19, 5:54 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Spartanburg	51 min
Nov 19, 6:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cherokee, Union	37 min
Nov 19, 6:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, York	41 min
Nov 19, 7:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Chester, York	45 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.