Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC issued this tornado warning at Jan 5, 2007, 3:09 PM EST for Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 39 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 2007, 3:09 PM EST (20:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 2007, 3:48 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 3:10 PM EST | TORNADO | Moore, SC | DAMAGE TO ROOF OF A MOBILE HOME IN MOORE. BACK SIDE OF A BARN AT THE HOME RIPPED OFF. A LARGE CHILDS PLAYHOUSE THROWN APPROXIMATELY 150 FEET FROM THE HOME AND SHATTERED IN THE ROAD. A SECTION OF CHAIN LINK FENCE...APPROXIMATELY 25 FEET...MANGLED. DAMAGE TO THE |
| Jan 5, 3:15 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Roebuck, SC | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AT WOODRUFF LANE AND OLD GEORGIA ROAD IN ROEBUCK. SOME DOWN ACROSS ROADS...2 DOWN ON A HOUSE. |
| Jan 5, 3:17 PM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Roebuck, SC | AT LEAST 6 LARGE CONIFERS UPROOTED...ALL IN THE SAME DIRECTION. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 229 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 052009 TORGSP SCC083-052100- /O.NEW.KGSP.TO.W.0003.070105T2009Z-070105T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 309 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SPARTANBURG COUNTY IN UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA * UNTIL 400 PM EST * AT 308 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROEBUCK...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPARTANBURG... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SPARTANBURG AROUND 315 PM EST... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF PACOLET AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOILING SPRINGS SC AROUND 320 PM EST... COWPENS AROUND 325 PM EST... MAYO AROUND 330 PM EST... 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHESNEE AROUND 335 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 3483 8215 3472 8198 3491 8170 3519 8187 $$ RWH/NED
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS52 KGSP 052016 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 315 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 SCC083-052100- /O.CON.KGSP.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070105T2100Z/ SPARTANBURG SC- 315 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EST FOR SPARTANBURG COUNTY... AT 313 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ROEBUCK...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SPARTANBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SPARTANBURG BY 320 PM EST... COWPENS BY 330 PM EST... THIS RAPIDLY MOVING TORNADO WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN AND VERY LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE THE TORNADO BEFORE SEEKING SHELTER. IT WILL LIKELY BE TOO LATE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER. OTHERWISE...GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR PLACE OF BUSINESS. LAT...LON 3483 8215 3472 8198 3491 8170 3519 8187 $$ NED
000 WWUS52 KGSP 052048 SVSGSP SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC 348 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 SCC083-052053- /O.CAN.KGSP.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070105T2100Z/ SPARTANBURG SC- 348 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SPARTANBURG COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRONG ROTATION HAS MOVED OUT OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 3483 8215 3472 8198 3491 8170 3519 8187 $$ NED
The 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, 2:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | GSP | Greenville | 32 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
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.