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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Apr 12, 2005, 5:43 PM EDT for Anderson County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 2005, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2005, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Anderson County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 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.
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 12, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1941 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 513 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 12, 4:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 4:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 12, 6:01 AM EDT, 11 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 601 AM EDT TUE APR 12 2005 GAZ010-017-018-026-028-029-NCZ033>037-048>059-062>072-082-SCZ001>014- 019-131001- ABBEVILLE SC-ALEXANDER NC-ANDERSON SC-AVERY NC-BUNCOMBE NC-BURKE NC- CABARRUS NC-CALDWELL NC-CATAWBA NC-CHEROKEE SC-CHESTER SC- CLEVELAND NC-DAVIE NC-ELBERT GA-FRANKLIN GA-GASTON NC-GRAHAM NC- GREATER GREENVILLE SC-GREATER OCONEE SC-GREATER PICKENS SC- GREENVILLE MOUNTAINS SC-GREENWOOD SC-HABERSHAM GA-HART GA-HAYWOOD NC- HENDERSON NC-IREDELL NC-LAURENS SC-LINCOLN NC-MACON NC-MADISON NC- MCDOWELL NC-MECKLENBURG NC-MITCHELL NC-NORTHERN JACKSON NC- OCONEE MOUNTAINS SC-PICKENS MOUNTAINS SC-POLK NC-RABUN GA-ROWAN NC- RUTHERFORD NC-SOUTHERN JACKSON NC-SPARTANBURG SC-STEPHENS GA- SWAIN NC-TRANSYLVANIA NC-UNION SC-UNION NC-YANCEY NC-YORK SC- 601 AM EDT TUE APR 12 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA... UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...AND EXTREME NORTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE QUITE STRONG OVER THE MOUNTAINS AS WELL AS OVER UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS AND SOUTHERN PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM CANNOT BE RULED OUT. SEE THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...ISSUED UNDER THE PRODUCT INVENTORY LIST HEADER CAESPSGSP...FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE ON AND OFF ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DRY HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO BUILD OVER OUR REGION FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION COULD BE POSSIBLE LATER TODAY. 44
The office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 6:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville | 23 min |
| Apr 12, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Greenwood | 43 min |
| Apr 12, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Laurens | 53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.