Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2005, 5:42 PM EDT for Oconee County, South Carolina; Rabun County, Georgia. It was in force for 63 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 5, 2005, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Rabun County, GA, Oconee County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 764 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KGSP 052143 SVRGSP GAC241-SCC073-052245- /O.NEW.KGSP.SV.W.0070.050605T2142Z-050605T2245Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 542 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN RABUN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA NORTHERN OCONEE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 535 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PINE MOUNTAIN... OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF CLAYTON. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MOUNTAIN REST AROUND 645 PM EDT... PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. IN ADDITION...THIS STORM IS PRODUCING DANGEROUS AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL. LAT...LON 3498 8320 3495 8328 3469 8322 3483 8294 $$ LANE
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KGSP 052218 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 612 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 GAC241-052222- /O.CAN.KGSP.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-050605T2245Z/ RABUN GA- 612 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RABUN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... LAT...LON 3490 8314 3487 8322 3465 8315 3475 8289 $$ SCC073-052245- /O.CON.KGSP.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-050605T2245Z/ OCONEE SC- 612 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 645 PM EDT EXPANDED TO INCLUDE ALL OF OCONEE COUNTY... AT 605 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY JUST NORTHWEST OF WALHALLA... MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. THIS INTENSIFYING STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALIZED...BRIEF DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AROUND WALHALLA THROUGH 645 PM. OTHER STRONG STORMS COULD DEVELOP AS FAR SOUTH AS SENECA AND WESTMINSTER DURING THIS TIME AS WELL. LAT...LON 3490 8314 3487 8322 3465 8315 3475 8289 $$ LANE
000 WWUS52 KGSP 052235 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 633 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 SCC073-052245- /O.CON.KGSP.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-050605T2245Z/ OCONEE SC- 633 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR OCONEE COUNTY... AT 630 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHEAST OF WALHALLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT LOCATIONS BETWEEN WALHALLA AND SENECA THROUGH 645 PM. IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 3478 8299 3475 8307 3453 8300 3463 8274 $$ LANE
000 WWUS52 KGSP 052244 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 642 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 SCC073-052252- /O.EXP.KGSP.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-050605T2245Z/ OCONEE SC- 642 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR OCONEE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 645 PM EDT... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT LOCATIONS AROUND SENECA FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO...PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. HOWEVER...THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FROM THIS STORM HAS DIMINISHED. LAT...LON 3478 8299 3475 8307 3453 8300 3463 8274 $$ LANE
What 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 5, 2:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 2:59 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 259 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)... DRIER AIR ALOFT HAS MIXED DOWN TO THE SURFACE THIS AFTERNOON...RESULTING IN MUCH DRIER SURFACE LAYER AND KEEPING CUMULUS DEVELOPMENT INTO THE SCATTERED CATEGORY. MOST UNSTABLE AIR IN THE CWFA AT MID AFTERNOON WAS IN AREAS ADJACENT TO THE SAVANNAH RIVER. RADAR SHOWS A FEW CELLS TRYING TO ORGANIZE ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND FAR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NEAR THE TENNESSEE BORDER. NO SIGN OF CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT YET FROM THE CENTRAL OR EASTERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA. UPSTREAM...KFFC 88-D SHOWS NUMEROUS CELLS DEVELOPING IN THE MUCH MOISTER AIR TO OUR SOUTHWEST AND AHEAD OF A WEAK PERTURBATION IN THE MEAN...LIGHT FLOW REGIME ASSOCIATED WITH UPPER LEVEL RIDGING. THIS FEATURE IS PROGD TO SCOOT ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ZONES THIS EVENING BEFORE HEADING TO THE COASTAL PLAIN LATE PER 12KM ETA. SUSPECT MOST...IF NOT ALL...CONVECTION WILL WANE WITH LOSS OF HEATING. WILL KEEP CHANCE GOING FOR HIGHER TERRAIN AREAS AND ADJACENT FOOTHILL/PIEDMONT LOCATIONS....LEAVING GREENVILLE/SPARTANBURG METRO WITH ISOLATED WORDING BUT EXTREME WESTERN UPSTATE/NORTHEAST GEORGIA WITH CHANCE POPS THIS EVENING. DEBRIS CLOUDINESS AGAIN EXPECTED TO BE NOTABLE TO THE SOUTHEAST LATER...BUT ANOTHER NITE FOR FOG SHAPING UP. WILL FEATURE PATCHY DENSE FOG FOR MOUNTAIN VALLEYS AND NORMALLY FOG-PRONE LOCATIONS ADJACENT TO SAVANNAH RIVER. SHORT RANGE MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT KEEPING CWFA IN A BROAD RIDGING REGIME ALOFT...WITH RATHER STRONG LEE TROF SIGNAL. THE UPPER RIDGE WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO OCCASIONAL FLATTENING AS SPOKES OF ENERGY EJECT FROM LONGWAVE TROF POSITION OVER THE MIDWEST. MODELS ADVERTISE WEAK FRONTAL/SURFACE BOUNDARIES THAT BECOME MORE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN AS THE STRONG AND MOIST SOUTHEAST RIDGE IS ENCOUNTERED....ESPECIALLY TUESDAY AS TROF POSITION ROTATES TO THE EASTERN THIRD OF THE NATION. LITTLE IN THE WAY OF FORCING DYNAMICALLY...BUT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE PROGD TO REMAIN DECENT ENOUGH THAT WITH HEATING...A FEW SCATTERED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP MONDAY AND TUESDAY. MODELS ADVERTISE MODEST INSTABILITY AND VERY LIGHT WINDS ALOFT THROUGH MIDWEEK...ALTHOUGH SOMEWHAT FASTER FLOW ALOFT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTH WEDNESDAY...SO ANY CELLS WILL NEED TO BE MONITORED FOR HEAVY RAINFALL IN ANY ONE LOCATION. WE PLAN TO ADVERTISE MAINLY DIURNAL CHANCES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...HIGHEST EAST AND SOUTHEAST TO DENOTE BETTER CHANCES WITH LEE TROFINESS. TEMPERATURES SHOULD GRADUALLY COOL A DEGREE OR TWO EACH OF THE NEXT THREE DAYS AS SOMEWHAT DEEPER MOISTURE ALOFT ENCOMPASSES THE CWFA...BUT ARE PROGD TO REMAIN AT OR ABOVE NORMAL LEVELS THROUGH MIDWEEK. && .LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)... EAST ATLANTIC HIGH TO REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD...KEEPING THE REGION IN MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE PRIMED FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BUT WITH WEAK SHORTWAVES ALOFT STAYING MAINLY N OF AREA...AND NO SURFACE BOUNDARIES TO SPEAK OF...ANY SIGNIFICANT FORCING MECHANISM WILL BE ABSENT. DIURNAL HEATING AND WEAK OROGRAPHICS WILL BE THE MAIN INFLUENCES DRIVING CONVECTION...AND IT APPEARS JUST ABOUT ANY WEAK SHORTWAVE ALOFT WILL BE ENOUGH TO HELP INITIATE CONVECTION DURING THE LATE AFTN-EARLY EVE PERIOD. WITH CONTINUING WEAK UPPER FLOW EXPECTED...ANY STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL BE SLOW MOVING AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED FLOODING. && .AVIATION... UNSTABLE AIRMASS CONTINUES OVER AREA AND ISOLD TO SCATTERED AFTN-EVE SHOWERS AND TSTMS ARE EXPECTED. 70+ DEW POINTS REMAIN S AND W OF CWA AND THAT IS WHERE SHOWERS BEGAN DEVELOPING. A WEAK LEE TROF LIES SE OF THE MTNS AND COULD ACT AS A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION. CIG/VIS SHOULD STAY PREDOMINANTLY VFR UNLESS A STORM MOVES DIRECTLY OVER AN AIRFIELD. HAVE INCLUDED CB CLOUD TYPES THROUGH MID EVENING ALL SITES...WITH VCTS OVER MTNS AND NEARBY FOOTHILL/PIEDMONT LOCATIONS...BUT TSTMS COULD REALLY DEVELOP ANYWHERE. STORMS THAT DO DEVELOP SHOULD DISSIPATE BY LATE EVENING. AREAS THAT GET RAINFALL WILL BE PRIMED FOR EARLY MORNING FOG. WILL KEEP MVFR FOG WITH TEMPO IFR AT KAND AND KAVL ATTM AND LET LATER SHIFTS DETERMINE WHETHER DENSER FOG IS LIKELY TO DEVELOP. && .GSP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... GA...NONE. NC...NONE. SC...NONE. && SHORT TERM...SAB LONG TERM...RB AVIATION...RB
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 6:38 AM EDT, 11 hours 4 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 638 AM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082- SCZ001>014-019-061045- 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- 638 AM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA... MUCH OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF THE PIEDMONT THIS MORNING. FOR FURTHER DETAILS...PLEASE SEE CAENPWGSP. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OR HAIL...IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY DAILY CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SEEN ALL THIS WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 5:07 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 507 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 GAZ010-017-018-NCZ033-034-048>055-058-059-062>067-SCZ001>005-052230- AVERY-BUNCOMBE-BURKE NC-CALDWELL-GRAHAM-GREATER OCONEE- GREATER PICKENS-GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS-HABERSHAM-HAYWOOD-HENDERSON- MACON NC-MADISON NC-MCDOWELL-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS-PICKENS MOUNTAINS-POLK NC-RABUN-RUTHERFORD- SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-STEPHENS-SWAIN-TRANSYLVANIA-YANCEY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ASHEVILLE...BREVARD...CHEROKEE... CLARKESVILLE...CLAYTON...FRANKLIN...HENDERSONVILLE...MARION... MORGANTON...NEWLAND...RUTHERFORDTON...SPRUCE PINE...SYLVA...TOCCOA... TRYON...WAYNESVILLE 507 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE AND INTENSITY INCREASING ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA. THE MOST LIKELY AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT WILL BE ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. THIS AFTERNOONS STORMS WILL MOVE VERY SLOWLY... ALLOWING SOME OF THEM TO PRODUCE AS MUCH AS 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL BEFORE MOVING ON OR DISSIPATING. IN SOME CASES...TERRAIN MAY RESULT IN STORMS DEVELOPING REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME GENERAL LOCATIONS... RESULTING IN A THREAT OF LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. IN ADDITION TO THE THREATS OF HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... ONE OR TWO OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF LOCALIZED DAMAGING WINDS. THE STORMS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH AROUND SUNSET. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LANE
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.