Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2005, 6:02 PM EDT for Laurens County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 27, 2005, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2005, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Laurens County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 2714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS52 KGSP 272202
SVRGSP
SCC059-272300-
/O.NEW.KGSP.SV.W.0113.050627T2202Z-050627T2300Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
602 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LAURENS COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 557 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
SOUTH OF JOANNA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF NEWBERRY...AND MOVING
NORTH AT 20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
JOANNA AROUND 620 PM EDT...
CLINTON AROUND 635 PM EDT...
8 MILES EAST OF LAURENS AROUND 645 PM EDT...
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 3422 8191 3443 8171 3459 8184 3475 8214
3455 8222
$$
RWH1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS52 KGSP 272230
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
630 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005
SCC059-272300-
/O.CON.KGSP.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-050627T2300Z/
LAURENS SC-
630 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR
LAURENS COUNTY...
AT 627 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JOANNA...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LAURENS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CLINTON AROUND 645 PM EDT...
LAURENS AND 8 MILES SOUTH OF ORA AROUND 700 PM EDT...
LAT...LON 3422 8191 3443 8171 3459 8184 3475 8214
3455 8222
$$
RWHWhat 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 Jun 27, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:04 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 204 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)... MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROF APPROACHING FROM THE SW. AT LEAST SCT SHWRS AND TSTMS EXPECTED ACROSS THE CWA. UPPER DIFLUENCE AND UPSLOPE ENHANCEMENT IN S FLOW WILL HELP COVERAGE INCREASE TO LIKELY OVER MTNS...ESCARPMENT AND ADJACENT FOOTHILL/PIEDMONT AREAS THROUGH THIS EVE. LAPS CAPES REACHED 2000- 3000 J/KG OUTSIDE OF MTNS THIS AFTN. WIND SHEAR IS WEAK BUT SLIGHT DRYING SHOWING UP AT MID LEVELS SO IF ISOLD STRONG STORMS DO DEVELOP...HIGH STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY FAR NE GA AND THE W PART OF UPSTATE SC WHERE DRYEST MID LEVELS ARE INDICATED. HEAVY RAIN STILL OF GREAT CONCERN THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT PERIOD... ESPECIALLY WHERE HEAVY RAIN FELL IN THE LAST 24 HOURS. THE THREAT OF MAINLY LATE DAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY...BUT WITH THIS AIRMASS...STORMS COULD DEVELOP ANYWHERE AND ANYTIME IF AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO THE AREA. && .LONG TERM (THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY)... GFS APPEARS TO BE THE MODEL OF CHOICE FOR THE MEDIUM RANGE...WHICH KEEPS A WEAK UPPER TROUGH OVER THE SRN APPALACHIANS INTO THE WEEKEND. A STRONG UPPER TROF MOVES E ACROSS N STATES LATE IN THE WEEK...WHICH REINFORCES THE TROF OVER THE E U.S. AS IT MOVES E. A COLD FRONT DROPS SE INTO N GA AND THE CAROLINAS FRI...THEN STALLS ALONG S EDGE OF THE AREA. WEAK SHORT WAVES MOVG THROUGH THE UPPER FLOW COULD INITIATE CONVECTION AT ANY TIME THROUGH THE PERIOD SO A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN KEPT IN THE GRIDDED FORECAST EACH DAY...WITH EMPHASIS ON MORE ACTIVE CONVECTION DURING THE WARMER AFTERNOON AND EVENING TIMEFRAME. && .AVIATION... CEILINGS WILL REMAIN IN LOW VFR RANGE THROUGH MID EVENING...EXCEPT WHERE SCATTERED RW/TRW DEVELOP. WITH SUCH A MOIST AIRMASS... CONTINUED UPGLIDE...VORTICITY ADVECTION AND UPPER DIFFLUENCE ASSOCIATED WITH TENNESSEE CLOSED LOW...EACH OF THE TAF SITES HAS AN EXCELLENT CHANCE AT SEEING SOME CONVECTION IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. WE HAVE FEATURED TEMPO GROUPS FOR LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING...THEN AGAIN LATE TONIGHT AS ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE CWFA LATE WITH POSSIBLE SEA BREEZE INTERACTION FROM THE SOUTHEAST. VISIBILITIES WERE LOWERED INTO THE IFR RANGE MOST LOCATIONS IN PRE-DAWN TEMPO GROUPS...WITH ACCOMPANYING IFR CEILINGS TOWARD MORNING. LOCATIONS THAT DO NOT SEE CONVECTION IN THE PREDAWN SHOULD SEE WIDESPREAD BLANKET OF IFR CEILINGS AND REDUCED VISIBILITY IN MIST. CONVECTION LIKELY TO BE STILL WIDESPREAD AT THE ONSET OF THE OUTLOOK PERIOD...WHICH FEATURES CONTINUED VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS IN HAZE AND CEILINGS APPROACHING LOWER VFR LEVEL BY 18Z. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RB LONG TERM...RB AVIATION...SAB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 5:54 AM EDT, 12 hours 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 554 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-281000- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- 554 AM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. ISOLATED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY UNDER THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY IN LOCATIONS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL EARLY THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE TROPICAL AIRMASS WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE WEEK. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY NEAR THE EXTREME SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS. FOR FURTHER DETAILS ON THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING...SEE THE HYDROLOGIC OUTLOOK...CAEESFGSP...ISSUED THIS MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO RELAY ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. HG
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 100 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-272000- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAYTON...CLARKESVILLE...TOCCOA... HARTWELL...ELBERTON...NEWLAND...STATESVILLE...MOCKSVILLE... SPRUCE PINE...CHEROKEE...WAYNESVILLE...ASHEVILLE...MARION... MORGANTON...HICKORY...SALISBURY...SYLVA...FRANKLIN...BREVARD... HENDERSONVILLE...COLUMBUS...RUTHERFORDTON...SHELBY...LINCOLNTON... GASTONIA...CHARLOTTE...CONCORD...MONROE...GREENVILLE... SPARTANBURG...GAFFNEY...ROCK HILL...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE... LAURENS...UNION...CHESTER...GREENWOOD 100 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...THREAT OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AND ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER... MORNING UPPER AIR ANALYSIS INDICATED THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. SOME ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE FORECAST AREA. OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS CAUSED SOME FLASH FLOODING IN A FEW LOCATIONS...AND THAT WILL BE A CONCERN AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE BEST CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM MARSHALL NORTH CAROLINA TO GREENWOOD SOUTH CAROLINA...WHERE THE AIR ALOFT WAS A BIT COLDER AND MORE UNSTABLE ACCORDING TO DATA COLLECTED THIS MORNING. A WEAK UPPER AIR FEATURE WILL HELP FOCUS SOME ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA. SOME HAIL COULD OCCUR...BUT DRIER AIR ALOFT WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS IN SOME OF THE STORMS. THE BEST CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING WILL INITIALLY BE IN AREAS WHICH RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT...FROM THE GREENVILLE AREA NORTH INTO THE MOUNTAINS AROUND HENDERSONVILLE AND ASHEVILLE. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL INCREASE GRADUALLY ACROSS MUCH OF THE CENTRAL PART OF THE FORECAST AREA AS NEW RAINFALL CAUSES THE GROUND TO BECOME SATURATED OVER LARGER AREAS. IT IS POSSIBLE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE ISSUED LATER TODAY FOR PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. ALSO...LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON. JONES
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 320 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-280300- RABUN-HABERSHAM-STEPHENS-FRANKLIN-HART-ELBERT-AVERY-CALDWELL- ALEXANDER-IREDELL-DAVIE-MADISON-YANCEY-MITCHELL-SWAIN-HAYWOOD- BUNCOMBE-MCDOWELL-BURKE-CATAWBA-ROWAN-GRAHAM-NORTHERN JACKSON- MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-TRANSYLVANIA-HENDERSON-POLK-RUTHERFORD- CLEVELAND-LINCOLN-GASTON-MECKLENBURG-CABARRUS-UNION- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS- GREATER OCONEE-GREATER PICKENS-GREATER GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG- CHEROKEE-YORK-ANDERSON-ABBEVILLE-LAURENS-CHESTER-GREENWOOD- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...CLAYTON...CLARKESVILLE...TOCCOA... HARTWELL...ELBERTON...NEWLAND...STATESVILLE...MOCKSVILLE... SPRUCE PINE...CHEROKEE...WAYNESVILLE...ASHEVILLE...MARION... MORGANTON...HICKORY...SALISBURY...SYLVA...FRANKLIN...BREVARD... HENDERSONVILLE...COLUMBUS...RUTHERFORDTON...SHELBY...LINCOLNTON... GASTONIA...CHARLOTTE...CONCORD...MONROE...GREENVILLE... SPARTANBURG...GAFFNEY...ROCK HILL...ANDERSON...ABBEVILLE... LAURENS...UNION...CHESTER...GREENWOOD 320 PM EDT MON JUN 27 2005 ...THREAT OF ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL AND ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA AT MID AFTERNOON. THE BEST COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND STORMS WAS FROM CHERRYVILLE THROUGH LINCOLNTON...TO SALISBURY AND MOCKSVILLE IN NORTH CAROLINA...AND JUST WEST OF GREENVILLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. OVERNIGHT THUNDERSTORMS CAUSED SOME FLASH FLOODING IN A FEW LOCATIONS...AND THAT WILL BE A CONCERN AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERAL LOCATIONS FROM AROUND GREENVILLE TO THE HENDERSONVILLE AREA HAD RAINFALL OF MORE THAN 3 INCHES IN A RELATIVELY SHORT TIME...WITH AN ISOLATED 9 INCH TOTAL REPORTED BY AN AUTOMATED GAGE IN EASTERN HENDERSON COUNTY. THE BEST CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GENERALLY WEST OF A LINE FROM MARSHALL NORTH CAROLINA TO GREENWOOD SOUTH CAROLINA...WHERE THE AIR ALOFT WAS A BIT COLDER AND MORE UNSTABLE. A WEAK UPPER AIR FEATURE WILL HELP FOCUS SOME ORGANIZED THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA. SOME HAIL COULD OCCUR...BUT DRIER AIR ALOFT WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WIND GUSTS IN SOME OF THE STORMS. THE BEST CHANCE OF ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING WILL INITIALLY BE IN AREAS WHICH RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL OVERNIGHT...FROM THE GREENVILLE AREA NORTH INTO THE MOUNTAINS AROUND HENDERSONVILLE AND ASHEVILLE. THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING WILL INCREASE GRADUALLY ACROSS MUCH OF THE CENTRAL PART OF THE FORECAST AREA AS NEW RAINFALL CAUSES THE GROUND TO BECOME SATURATED OVER LARGER AREAS. CRITICAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN THOSE AREAS...WHICH WILL ENOUGH TO BEGIN FLASH FLOODING...WILL BE MORE THAN ABOUT 2 INCHES IN 3 HOURS. IT IS POSSIBLE A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING FOR PART OF THE FORECAST AREA. ALSO...LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLY WARNINGS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. JONES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 2:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GSP | Greenville | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | York | 62 min |
| Jun 27, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.