Alert archive / South Carolina / 2003
Weather alerts in South Carolina, February 2003
60 weather alerts in February 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 February 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 60
- Warnings
- 47
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 22, 200350 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 4:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 22 min |
| Feb 4, 5:04 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenwood and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 10:09 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Greenville, Spartanburg, York | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 6:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Edgefield and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 8:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 8:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 9:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens, Union | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 9:27 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Calhoun, Chester, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington and 14 more | 63 min |
| Feb 22, 9:45 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield, Florence and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 10:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 10:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Chester | 16 min |
| Feb 22, 10:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 39 min |
| Feb 22, 10:59 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston and 8 more | 61 min |
| Feb 22, 11:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 11:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield, Richland | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 11:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 47 min |
| Feb 22, 11:46 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell, Calhoun, Kershaw | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 11:47 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Horry, Lee, Marion and 2 more | 88 min |
| Feb 22, 11:55 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 22, 11:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 12:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Sumter | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 12:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale | 57 min |
| Feb 22, 12:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Orangeburg | 56 min |
| Feb 22, 12:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell | 44 min |
| Feb 22, 12:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 12:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 40 min |
| Feb 22, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington | 60 min |
| Feb 22, 12:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 1:01 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 89 min | |
| Feb 22, 1:01 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 89 min | |
| Feb 22, 1:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 57 min |
| Feb 22, 1:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 38 min |
| Feb 22, 1:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 52 min |
| Feb 22, 1:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 1:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 51 min |
| Feb 22, 1:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence | 63 min |
| Feb 22, 1:45 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 60 min | |
| Feb 22, 1:49 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Georgetown, Williamsburg | 116 min |
| Feb 22, 1:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 38 min |
| Feb 22, 1:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Darlington, Dillon, Marlboro | 50 min |
| Feb 22, 2:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 74 min |
| Feb 22, 2:15 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr | |
| Feb 22, 2:22 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Georgetown, Horry | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 2:33 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 87 min | |
| Feb 22, 2:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Marion | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Williamsburg | 64 min |
| Feb 22, 2:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 62 min |
| Feb 22, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Charleston | 67 min |
| Feb 22, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 4:10 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 35 min | |
| Feb 22, 4:15 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 90 min | |
| Feb 22, 6:09 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Marion | 66 min |
| Feb 22, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Anderson | 45 min |
| Feb 22, 9:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 9:47 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Lancaster, Spartanburg, Union and 1 more | 118 min |
| Feb 27, 1:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:54 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Chester | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:55 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 5:14 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CAE | Lancaster | 3 hr |
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 | 36 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 9 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
| Marine | |
| Special Marine Warning | 7 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chester County6
- Darlington County6
- Lancaster County6
- Richland County6
- Chesterfield County5
- Lee County5
- Lexington County5
- Marlboro County5
- Saluda County5
- Sumter County5
- Calhoun County5
- Clarendon County5
- Orangeburg County5
- Charleston County5
- Georgetown County5
- Fairfield County4
- Kershaw County4
- Newberry County4
- York County4
- Allendale County4
- Barnwell County4
- Dillon County4
- Florence County4
- Marion County4
- Beaufort County4
- Berkeley County4
- Colleton County4
- Williamsburg County4
- Horry County4
- Greenville County3
- Edgefield County3
- Aiken County3
- Bamberg County3
- Dorchester County3
- Hampton County3
- Jasper County3
- Cherokee County2
- Spartanburg County2
- McCormick County2
- Union County2
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.