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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

May 6, 2003Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 2:04 PM EDT for Elbert County, Hart County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 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: May 6, 2003, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Elbert County, GA, Hart County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 6, 1:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 386 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS52 KGSP 061804
TORGSP
GAC105-147-061900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
203 PM EDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN HART COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA
  ELBERT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT.

* AT 203 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  CARNESVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF VANNA...MOVING EAST AT 45
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  VANNA AT 210 PM EDT.
  BOWMAN AT 215 PM EDT.
  DEWY ROSE AT 220 PM EDT.
  ELBERTON AT 225 PM EDT.
  RUCKERSVILLE AT 230 PM EDT.

THIS STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF BASEBALLS.

PEOPLE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE ACTION NOW TO
PROTECT THEIR LIVES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT...THE CENTER OF BUILDINGS...
COVER YOUR HEAD. DO NOT GO NEAR DOORS AND WINDOWS. GET OUT OF MOBILE
HOMES AND VEHICLES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING OR A DITCH.

LAT...LON 3427 8311 3433 8309 3432 8280 3416 8274
          3407 8265 3407 8299 3418 8310 3423 8307

$$
MOORE/MCAVOY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 10:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GSP	Rabun	50 min
May 6, 1:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GSP	Franklin	33 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.