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Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2003

33 tornado warnings in 2003. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest month
May14 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 6, 200310 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 12:04 AM ESTTornado WarningCAEAiken, Barnwell26 min
Apr 21, 5:45 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville45 min
Apr 21, 6:05 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPGreenwood40 min
Apr 25, 10:34 AM EDTTornado WarningCAEOrangeburg26 min
May 3, 5:57 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPOconee33 min
May 3, 10:49 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester41 min
May 6, 1:23 AM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield22 min
May 6, 1:32 AM EDTTornado WarningCAESaluda28 min
May 6, 2:09 AM EDTTornado WarningCAELexington36 min
May 6, 2:26 AM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken49 min
May 6, 2:35 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAbbeville55 min
May 6, 3:18 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEMcCormick27 min
May 6, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WarningILMGeorgetown38 min
May 6, 6:47 PM EDTTornado WarningILMHorry43 min
May 6, 6:58 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley, Dorchester62 min
May 6, 7:03 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston27 min
May 16, 6:45 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton30 min
May 31, 4:53 PM EDTTornado WarningILMMarion37 min
Jun 3, 6:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton43 min
Jun 19, 3:27 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPChester48 min
Jul 1, 10:58 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSAllendale32 min
Jul 1, 10:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEBarnwell31 min
Jul 1, 11:49 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSHampton41 min
Jul 2, 12:27 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton33 min
Jul 2, 12:52 AM EDTTornado WarningCAEOrangeburg38 min
Jul 2, 12:59 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton31 min
Jul 2, 1:17 AM EDTTornado WarningCHSDorchester58 min
Jul 2, 1:25 AM EDTTornado WarningGSPLaurens50 min
Jul 2, 2:43 AM EDTTornado WarningCAEClarendon47 min
Jul 2, 6:13 AM EDTTornado WarningILMMarion62 min
Jul 13, 3:20 PM EDTTornado WarningGSPAnderson, Pickens40 min
Jul 23, 5:52 PM EDTTornado WarningILMHorry38 min
Nov 19, 6:03 AM ESTTornado WarningGSPSpartanburg27 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 6, 200310tornado warnings
  2. July 2, 200310tornado warnings
  3. April 21, 20032tornado warnings
  4. March 20, 20031tornado warnings
  5. April 25, 20031tornado warnings
  6. May 3, 20031tornado warnings
  7. May 4, 20031tornado warnings
  8. May 16, 20031tornado warnings
  9. May 31, 20031tornado warnings
  10. June 3, 20031tornado warnings
  11. June 19, 20031tornado warnings
  12. July 13, 20031tornado warnings

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.