Alert archive / Georgia / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 9:29 PM EDT for Franklin County, Georgia; Oconee County, South Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2002, 9:29 PM EDT (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, GA, Oconee County, SC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Keowee, SC | Large plastic covers were blown off of a greenhouse. |
| Apr 28, 9:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Madison, SC | Numerous trees and power lines were reported down. In addition, gutters were reportedly torn off of some homes. |
| Apr 28, 9:30 PM EDT | Hail 3 | Madison, SC | Widespread damage to buildings and vehicles was reported. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1915 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1206 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KGSP 290129 TORGSP GAC119-SCC073-290200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 929 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA SOUTHEASTERN OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT. * AT 929 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 11 MILES EAST OF TOCCOA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF WHITWORTH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WHITWORTH AT 930 PM EDT. LAVONIA AT 935 PM EDT. FAIR PLAY AT 940 PM EDT. TOWNVILLE AT 945 PM EDT. A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED OVER LAKE HARTWELL WITH THIS STORM. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR $$ MCAVOY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Rabun | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Stephens | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 9:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Hart | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 41 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.