Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2004, 9:29 PM EST for Pickens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 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
- Mar 30, 2004, 9:29 PM EST (02:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2004, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pickens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
747
WUUS52 KGSP 310229
SVRGSP
SCC077-310300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
929 PM EST TUE MAR 30 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN PICKENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 1000 PM EST
* AT 929 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PICKENS...OR ABOUT OVER EASLEY...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
DACUSVILLE AT 935 PM EST.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 3499 8264 3507 8259 3500 8259 3500 8255
3491 8251 3482 8249 3477 8258 3485 8273
$$
07What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 30, 9:05 PM EST, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 9:05 PM EST, 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED FIRST PERIOD POP NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 905 PM EST TUE MAR 30 2004 .UPDATE... COMPLEX PATTER TO DEAL WITH TONIGHT. WEDGE OVER ALL BUT S AND W OF AREA...WITH WARM/MOIST AIR SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY. COLD FRONT MOVING VERY SLOWLY INTO FAR W. WITH FROPA TO BE LATE...INCREASED CLOUD COVER. WILL RAISE POPS AHEAD OF CONVECTIVE LINE FORMING UPPER SAVANNAH RIVER VALEY. BETTER INSTABILITY E LATER. RAISED MINIMUM TERMPERATURES UPPER SAVANANNAH RIVER VALLEY WHERE MOISTURE GREATEST. WITH WIND RATHER WEAK...THINK SCOURING OF CLOUDS AND MOISTURE WILL BE DIFFICULT. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GSP 45 58 40 61 / 90 40 10 10 AND 46 59 40 61 / 90 40 10 10 CLT 43 59 40 61 / 80 40 10 10 HKY 42 55 39 58 / 70 50 20 10 AVL 41 53 37 54 / 90 40 20 20 .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && 07 JAT
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 5:40 AM EST, 15 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 540 AM EST TUE MAR 30 2004 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-301240- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 540 AM EST TUE MAR 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. DEO
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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.