Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 207
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2003, 2:35 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2003, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 53 counties
Banks County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hart County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Surry County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Habersham, Stephens | 65 min |
| May 2, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Buncombe, Madison | 56 min |
| May 2, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 54 min |
| May 2, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Greene, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington | 63 min |
| May 2, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Henderson, Transylvania | 58 min |
| May 2, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 55 min |
| May 2, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Franklin | 63 min |
| May 2, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 54 min |
| May 2, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Polk | 63 min |
| May 2, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 80 min |
| May 2, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Hart | 47 min |
| May 2, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Spartanburg | 54 min |
| May 2, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rutherford | 62 min |
| May 2, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 47 min |
| May 2, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 63 min |
| May 2, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Watauga | 46 min |
| May 2, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Burke, McDowell | 58 min |
| May 2, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cleveland | 49 min |
| May 2, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee, Union | 79 min |
| May 2, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Catawba, Lincoln | 52 min |
| May 2, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 33 min |
| May 2, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 73 min |
| May 2, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Surry, Yadkin | 40 min |
| May 2, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Ashe | 36 min |
| May 2, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Gaston | 63 min |
| May 2, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 75 min |
| May 2, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Iredell, Mecklenburg | 71 min |
| May 2, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Alleghany | 35 min |
| May 2, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RNK | Yadkin | 22 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rabun | 2 hr |
| May 2, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 23 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Quitman, Troup | 4 hr |
| May 2, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Glascock, McDuffie, Richmond | 5 hr |
| May 2, 5:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee and 36 more | 92 min |
| May 2, 5:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay | 93 min |
| May 2, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Heard | 5 hr |
| May 2, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 58 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 23 more | 84 min |
| May 2, 7:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Glascock, Richmond | 88 min |
| May 2, 4:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland and 23 more | 113 min |
| May 2, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Duplin and 11 more | 3 hr |
| May 2, 9:52 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Campbell, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay and 23 more | 113 min |
| May 2, 2:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Fayette, Giles, Hardeman, Hardin, Lawrence and 4 more | 92 min |
| May 2, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fayette | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2003Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.