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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

November 19, 2003Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 19, 2003, 7:46 AM EST for Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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, 7:46 AM EST (12:46 UTC)
Expired: Nov 19, 2003, 8:30 AM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mecklenburg County, NC

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
Nov 19, 7:25 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 397 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 191246
TORGSP
NCC119-191330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 AM EST.

* AT 746 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCK
  HILL...OR ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF PINEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CHARLOTTE AT 755 AM EST.
  MINT HILL AT 800 AM EST.
  NEWELL AT 805 AM EST.

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 3529 8081 3526 8084 3526 8085 3526 8085
          3525 8086 3525 8087 3524 8089 3524 8090
          3523 8090 3522 8092 3522 8093 3520 8095

$$
JONES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 19, 6:49 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cleveland	41 min
Nov 19, 7:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Gaston, Lincoln	45 min
Nov 19, 8:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Cabarrus, Rowan, Union	46 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.