Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 216
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 2, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT for 17 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 21 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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.
Warnings issued inside it
1 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 42 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 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 | Alexander, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba and 17 more | 2 hr |
| May 2, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 21 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Swain | 5 hr |
| May 2, 4:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland and 23 more | 113 min |
| May 2, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 6:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Clay, Graham | 84 min |
| May 2, 7:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 21 more | 88 min |
| May 2, 5:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McCormick | 92 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Watches in South Carolina, 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.