Alert archive / South Carolina / 2003
Weather alerts in South Carolina, April 2003
42 weather alerts in April 2003, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 42
- Warnings
- 34
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- April 26, 200316 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 8:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 48 min |
| Apr 7, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 32 min |
| Apr 7, 6:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Jasper | 115 min |
| Apr 9, 7:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 89 min | |
| Apr 10, 5:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Allendale | 112 min |
| Apr 10, 6:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Hampton | 116 min |
| Apr 10, 7:19 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Newberry | 116 min |
| Apr 10, 7:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 119 min |
| Apr 10, 9:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Allendale | 2 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton and 1 more | 115 min |
| Apr 21, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson | 40 min |
| Apr 21, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 45 min |
| Apr 21, 5:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 5:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, Saluda | 3 hr |
| Apr 21, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenwood | 40 min |
| Apr 21, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Saluda | 46 min |
| Apr 21, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield | 44 min |
| Apr 21, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 49 min |
| Apr 21, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 50 min |
| Apr 21, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 10:34 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 26 min |
| Apr 25, 10:57 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 93 min | |
| Apr 25, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 94 min | |
| Apr 25, 1:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort | 119 min |
| Apr 26, 10:03 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Chesterfield and 17 more | 117 min |
| Apr 26, 10:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 40 min |
| Apr 26, 10:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 11:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 60 min | |
| Apr 26, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 18 min |
| Apr 26, 11:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion, Marlboro | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 90 min | |
| Apr 26, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 66 min |
| Apr 26, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 1:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 62 min |
| Apr 26, 1:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion, Marlboro | 2 hr |
| Apr 26, 2:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Greenville, Lancaster, Newberry and 3 more | 116 min |
| Apr 26, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Marlboro | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Dillon | 58 min |
| Apr 26, 4:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Marion, Marlboro | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 45 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 19 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 7 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 7 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dillon County5
- Florence County5
- Marlboro County5
- Orangeburg County4
- Colleton County4
- Abbeville County4
- Beaufort County4
- Darlington County4
- Horry County4
- Marion County4
- Allendale County3
- Dorchester County3
- Charleston County3
- Lancaster County3
- York County3
- Jasper County2
- Hampton County2
- Newberry County2
- Barnwell County2
- Bamberg County2
- Edgefield County2
- Greenwood County2
- Saluda County2
- Calhoun County2
- Richland County2
- Oconee County2
- Anderson County1
- Aiken County1
- McCormick County1
- Lexington County1
- Berkeley County1
- Chesterfield County1
- Clarendon County1
- Georgetown County1
- Kershaw County1
- Lee County1
- Sumter County1
- Williamsburg County1
- Cherokee County1
- Chester County1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.