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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC

June 19, 2003Chester County, South Carolina

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2003, 3:27 PM EDT for Chester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 19, 2003, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2003, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chester County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 206 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 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
206 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 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.

643 
WFUS52 KGSP 191927
TORGSP
SCC023-192015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
327 PM EDT THU JUN 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHESTER COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT.

* AT 327 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES EAST OF UNION...OR
  ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEEDS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LEEDS AT 330 PM EDT.
  CHESTER AT 345 PM EDT.
  CORNWELL AT 355 PM EDT.
  BLACKSTOCK AT 400 PM EDT.
  RICHBURG AT 405 PM EDT.

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

LAT...LON 3480 8147 3458 8145 3445 8092 3475 8088

$$

RWH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 11:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAnderson, Pickens3 hr
Jun 19, 2:17 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGSPAnderson, Pickens3 hr
Jun 19, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSPChester, Union59 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes in 2003

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.