Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 5, 2007, 2:46 PM EST for Greenville County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Jan 5, 2007, 2:46 PM EST (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2007, 3:18 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenville County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS52 KGSP 051946
TORGSP
SCC045-052030-
/O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0002.070105T1946Z-070105T2030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
246 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA
* UNTIL 330 PM EST
* AT 243 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF TRAVELERS REST...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
MARIETTA AROUND 255 PM EST...
TIGERVILLE AROUND 305 PM EST...
NORTH SALUDA RESERVOIR AROUND 310 PM EST...
THIS RAPIDLY MOVING TORNADO WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND
VERY LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE THE TORNADO BEFORE
SEEKING SHELTER. IT WILL LIKELY BE TOO LATE MOBILE HOMES AND
VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER. OTHERWISE...GO TO
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR PLACE OF
BUSINESS.
TO REPORT TORNADOES...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...OR FLOODING...
THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED REPORTING SYSTEM...CALL OUR TOLL FREE NUMBER...
1 8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST FRIDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE
SOUTH CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3501 8256 3479 8250 3497 8231 3519 8220
3519 8242
$$
RWH/NED2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS52 KGSP 051959
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
259 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007
SCC045-052030-
/O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070105T2030Z/
GREENVILLE SC-
259 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM EST FOR NORTHERN
GREENVILLE COUNTY...
AT 256 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TRAVELERS REST...
OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
TIGERVILLE BY 305 PM EST...
NORTH SALUDA RESERVOIR BY 315 PM EST...
THIS RAPIDLY MOVING TORNADO WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND
VERY LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE THE TORNADO BEFORE
SEEKING SHELTER. IT WILL LIKELY BE TOO LATE MOBILE HOMES AND
VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER. OTHERWISE...GO TO
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR PLACE OF
BUSINESS.
LAT...LON 3501 8256 3479 8250 3497 8231 3519 8220
3519 8242
$$
RWH/NED000
WWUS52 KGSP 052018
SVSGSP
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
318 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007
SCC045-052028-
/O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070105T2030Z/
GREENVILLE SC-
318 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN GREENVILLE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND THE SEVERE
WEATHER THREAT HAS ENDED.
LAT...LON 3501 8256 3479 8250 3497 8231 3519 8220
3519 8242
$$
LANEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Oconee | 68 min |
| Jan 5, 2:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Abbeville, Anderson, Greenwood | 57 min |
| Jan 5, 2:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Pickens | 45 min |
| Jan 5, 2:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Greenville, Laurens, Spartanburg | 66 min |
| Jan 5, 3:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Spartanburg | 39 min |
| Jan 5, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Union | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 3:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GSP | Cherokee | 48 min |
| Jan 5, 4:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | York | 14 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 2007Every tornado warning in 2007Tornadoes in 2007
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.