Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2003, 4:53 PM EDT for Marion County, South Carolina. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2003, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2003, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 31, 2:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KILM 312053 TORILM SCC067-312130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON NC 452 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON NC HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 448 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF MARION ALONG HIGHWAY 576 AND HIGHWAY 9...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RAINS AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES AROUND 510 PM THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN WILMINGTON NC. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA AND NORTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. $$ SRP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington | 51 min |
| May 31, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Marlboro | 57 min |
| May 31, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon, Marion | 58 min |
| May 31, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 57 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.